27. And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me.
28. And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.
29. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them.
30. But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
31. And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick.
32. I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
33. And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?
34. To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast, whilst the bridegroom is with them?
35. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days.
36. And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.
37. And no man putteth new wine into old bottle: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost.
38. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
39. And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.