25. Immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.
26. They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today."
27. After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "Follow Me."
28. And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.
29. And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.
30. The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
31. And Jesus answered and said to them, "It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.
32. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
33. And they said to Him, "The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink."
34. And Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
35. But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."