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and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying -- `We saw strange things to-day.'
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And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;'
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and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.
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And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),
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and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'
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And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:
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I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
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And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'
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And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?
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but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'
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And he spake also a simile unto them -- `No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that [is] from the new.