and others at table with them.
005:030 This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate
with His disciples and ask, "Why are you eating and drinking
with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"
005:031 But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health
who require a physician, but the sick.
005:032 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
005:033 Again they said to Him, "John's disciples fast often and pray,
as do also those of the pharisees; but yours eat and drink."
005:034 "Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus,
"so long as they have the bridegroom among them?
005:035 But a time for this will come, when the Bridegroom has been
taken away from them: then, at that time, they will fast."
005:036 He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one,"
He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one.
Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch
from the new would not match the old.
005:037 Nor does any one pour new wine into old wine-skins. Otherwise
the new wine would burst the skins, the wine itself would
be spilt, and the skins be destroyed.
005:038 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
005:039 Nor does any one after drinking old wine wish for new;
for he says, `The old is better.'"
006:001 Now on the second-first Sabbath while He was passing through
the wheatfields, His disciples were plucking the ears and
rubbing them with their hands to eat the grain.
006:002 And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what the Law
forbids on the Sabbath?"
006:003 "Have you never read so much as this," answered Jesus--"what David
did when he and his followers were hungry;