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26 And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day.
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Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
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.
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After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,
28 And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.
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and Levi got up, left everything 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.
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Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.
30 But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.
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Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
32 I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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?
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They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”
34 To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?
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Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he 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.
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But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
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.
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He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
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