15. While He was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also guests with Jesus and His disciples, because there were many who were following Him.
16. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners? ”
17. When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
18. Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast? ”
19. Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
20. But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
21. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.
22. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
23. On the Sabbath He was going through the grainfields, and His disciples began to make their way picking some heads of grain.
24. The Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath? ”
25. He said to them, “Have you never read what David and those who were with him did when he was in need and hungry —
26. how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the sacred bread — which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests — and also gave some to his companions? ”
27. Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
28. Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”