New International Reader's Version

Luke 5:31-36 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

31. Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy don't need a doctor. Sick people do.

32. I have not come to get those who think they are right with God to follow me. I have come to get sinners to turn away from their sins."

33. Some of the people who were there said to Jesus, "John's disciples often pray and go without eating. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours go on eating and drinking."

34. Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the groom go without eating while he is with them?

35. But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them. In those days they will fast."

36. Then Jesus gave them an example. He said, "People don't tear a patch from new clothes and sew it on old clothes. If they do, they will tear the new clothes. Also, the patch from the new clothes will not match the old clothes.