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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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And he left all, arose, and followed him.
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And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others that sat down with them.
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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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And Jesus answering, said to them, They that are well need not a physician; but they that are sick.
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise [the disciples] of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
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And he said to them, Can ye make the children of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they will fast in those days.
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And he spoke also a parable to them: No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old: if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was [taken] out of the new, agreeth not with the old.
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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles will perish.