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And the scribes and Pharisees, seeing him eat with publicans and sinners, said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?
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When Jesus heard
it, he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.
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And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees did fast and therefore came and said unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
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And Jesus said unto them, Can those who are in a wedding fast while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
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But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.
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No one mends an old garment with a new piece of cloth,
or else the new piece that filled it up tears away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins;
or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are lost; but new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
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And it came to pass that as he went through the planted fields
again on the sabbath day, his disciples began, as they walked, to pluck the ears of grain.
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And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
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And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those that were with him?
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How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?