Matthew 9:9-17 As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me." ¹⁰ And he rose and followed him. And while he was at table in Matthew's house, there came many tax-gatherers and sinners, and they dined with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹ When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?" ¹² "It is not those who are well," said Jesus, when he heard this, "but the sick, who need a doctor. ¹³ "But go and learn what this means, "It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice; for I am come not to call just men, but sinners." ¹⁴ At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?" ¹⁵ "Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ "No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse. ¹⁷ "Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins; if they did, the wine-skins would split, the wine would run out, and the skins be ruined. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wine-skins and both are preserved."