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Luke 5:27-39 (AMP)

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²⁷ And after this, Jesus went out and looked at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me. ²⁸ And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him . ²⁹ And Levi (Matthew) made a great banquet for Him in his own house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. ³⁰ Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus' disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinful people? ³¹ And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but the erring ones (those not free from sin) to repentance . ³³ Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of petition, and so do of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink. ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, Can you make the wedding guests fast as long as the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵ But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in those days. ³⁶ He told them a proverb also: No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment; if he does, he will both tear the new one, and the patch from the new will not match the old . ³⁷ And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed). ³⁸ But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ³⁹ And no one after drinking old wine immediately desires new wine, for he says, The old is good or better.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 33) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)
(v. 34) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)
(v. 35) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 29) Contagious Christian - A Matthew Party (2010-11-01)
(v. 29) Contagious Christian - Matthew's Interpersonal Approach (2010-11-08)
(v. 31) No one like him - His Compassion and Love (2009-05-11)

Definition(s):
Jesus (Jeez-us): savior; deliverer
Levi (Lee-vi): associated with him
Pharisees (Fehr-iss-ees): set apart