Matthew the Tax Collector(A)

(B)As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.

10 (C)Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with (D)tax collectors and (E)sinners?”

12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: (F)‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, (G)but sinners, [a]to repentance.”

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting(H)

14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, (I)“Why do we and the Pharisees fast [b]often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

15 And Jesus said to them, “Can (J)the [c]friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and (K)then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for [d]the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins [e]break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 NU omits to repentance
  2. Matthew 9:14 NU brackets often as disputed.
  3. Matthew 9:15 Lit. sons of the bridechamber
  4. Matthew 9:16 Lit. that which is put on
  5. Matthew 9:17 burst

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