Luke 5:27-39

Call of Levi (Matthew)

27 ¹After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named ²Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "Follow Me."

28 And he ³left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.

29 And ⁴Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of ⁵tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.

30 ⁶The 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, "⁷It 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, "⁸The 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 "⁹But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."

36 And He was also telling them a parable: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

37 "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.

38 "But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

39 "And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, 'The old is good enough.' "

Cross References

• 1. Luke 5:27-39: {Matthew 9:9-17; Mark 2:14-22}
• 2. Matthew 9:9
• 3. Luke 5:11
• 4. Matthew 9:9
• 5. Luke 15:1
• 6. Mark 2:16; Luke 15:2; Acts 23:9
• 7. Matthew 9:12, 13; Mark 2:17
• 8. Matthew 9:14; Mark 2:18
• 9. Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:20; Luke 17:22

Footnotes

• [a]. Also called "Matthew"
• [b]. I.e. irreligious Jews
• [c]. Or "likewise"
• [d]. Lit "sons of the bridal-chamber"