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And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples.
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When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
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But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
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Go and learn what this means, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."
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Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"
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And Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made.
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Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
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While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
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And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples.
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Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak,