27. After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me! ”
28. So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow Him.
29. Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for Him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them.
30. But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to His disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”
31. Jesus replied to them, “The healthy don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.
32. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
33. Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
34. Jesus said to them, “You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you?