Luke 5:27-6:11

English Standard Version

Jesus Calls Levi

^27 (A)After this he went out and saw ^(B)a tax collector named ^(C)Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” ²⁸ And ^(D)leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

²⁹ And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company ^(E)of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. ³⁰ And the Pharisees and ^(F)their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, ^(G)“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹ And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ^32 (H)I have not come to call the righteous ^(I)but sinners ^(J)to repentance.”

A Question About Fasting

³³ And they said to him, ^(K)“The disciples of John ^(L)fast often and ^(M)offer prayers, ^(N)and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, ^(O)“Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? ^35 (P)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and ^(Q)then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶ He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. ³⁷ And no one puts new wine into old ^(R)wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ³⁹ And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”^[a]

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

6 ^(S)On a Sabbath,^[b] while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples ^(T)plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. ² But some of the Pharisees said, ^(U)“Why are you doing ^(V)what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” ³ And Jesus answered them, ^(W)“Have you not read ^(X)what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and took and ate ^(Y)the bread of the Presence, ^(Z)which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” ⁵ And he said to them, ^(AA)“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

A Man with a Withered Hand

⁶ On another Sabbath, ^(AB)he entered the synagogue ^(AC)and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. ⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees ^(AD)watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, ^(AE)so that they might find a reason to accuse him. ⁸ But ^(AF)he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. ⁹ And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, ^(AG)is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” ¹⁰ And ^(AH)after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And ^(AI)he did so, and his hand was restored. ¹¹ But they were filled with ^(AJ)fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.