Bible Verses

On the Sabbath One Sabbath, he was walking through grain fields. As his disciples walked alongside him, they began picking the heads of grain and crushing them in their hands.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, for the wine would burst the skins and then both the wine and the skins would be lost. But new wine, new skins!”

 No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old coat, because the new patch will shrink and tear away from the old cloth, making a worse tear. 

But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast. 

Jesus replied: “How can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

On fasting One day, while the Pharisees and the disciples of John the Baptist were fasting, some people asked Jesus: “Why is it that both the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast, but yours do not?”

Jesus heard them and replied: “Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

But the Pharisees, men educated in the law, saw Jesus eating with sinners and tax collectors and asked his disciples: “Why does your master eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

And it so happened that, when Jesus was eating at Levi’s house, tax collectors and sinners sat with him and his disciples; there were many of them, and they used to follow Jesus. 

As he walked along, he saw a tax collector sitting in his office. This was Levi, the son of Alpheus. Jesus said to him: “Follow me!” And he got up and followed him.