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Luke 5:30-34 New English Translation (NET)

30. But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31. Jesus answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.

32. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

33. Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”

34. So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

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