Levi's Feast. Discourse Concerning Fasting
58. Matt 9:10-17
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house,
behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with
him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they
said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with
publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said
unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they
that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I
will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do
we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? 15
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the
bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with
them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be
taken from them, and then shall they fast. 16 No man putteth
a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is
put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is
made worse. 17 Neither do men put new wine into old
bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and
the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles,
and both are preserved.
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