Levi's Feast. Discourse Concerning Fasting
58. Luke 5:29-39
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and
there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat
down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees
murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and
drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering
said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician;
but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance. 33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast
often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the
Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? 34 And he said unto them,
Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the
bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, when
the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then
shall they fast in those days. 36 And he spake also a parable
unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon
an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and
the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the
old. 37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else
the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the
bottles shall perish. 38 But new wine must be put into new
bottles; and both are preserved. 39 No man also having
drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The
old is better.
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