0260507 Matthew called to be a disciple, Pharisees question Jesus – Matthew 9:9-17, Mark 2:13-22, Luke 5:27-39, A.D. 27 Capernaum in Galilee
And after these things, he went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. And as Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew (Levi), the son of Alphaeus, a tax collector sitting at the tax collector’s office booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose, and he got up and he left everything, and followed him. And Levi made a great feast for him in his house and it happened that as he sat eating at the table in his house, behold, there was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. For there were many tax collectors and sinners who came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples and they followed him. And when the scribes and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, the scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples and they said to his disciples, “Why do you and your teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” But when Jesus heard it, he answered and said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
And then John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came to him, saying, “Why do we as John’s disciples, the Pharisees, and likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees fast and pray often, but your disciples do not fast? Yours eat and drink? And Jesus said to them, “Can you make the friends, the sons of the bridegroom (the groomsmen) fast and mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? And as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. And he also spoke a parable to them. And no man puts and sews a piece of unshrunk cloth from a new garment on an old garment; or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old. For the patch would tear away from the garment. He will tear the new and a worse hole is made. And also the piece from the new will not match the old. Neither do they, and no one, puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine skin would burst the skins, and the wine pours out and be spilled and the skins will be ruined and destroyed. But no, they put new wine into new fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” And no man having drunk old wine desires the new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
