15. And as Jesus reclined in his house, his disciples and many publicans and sinners also reclined with him: for there were many of them, and they followed him.

16. When the scribes and Pharisees saw that he was eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, "How is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

17. When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "It is not the healthy who have need of a physician, but the sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

18. The disciples of John and the Pharisees fasted. They come to Him and say, "Why do the disciples of John and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

19. And Jesus said to them, "Can the sons of the bridal chamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?" As long as the bridegroom is with them, they cannot fast;

20. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

21. No one puts patches of unbleached cloth to old clothes: otherwise, the newly sewn will be torn off the old, and the hole will be even worse.

22. No one pours new wine into old skins: otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine will leak out, and the skins will be lost; but new wine must be poured into new skins.

23. And it happened that on the Sabbath he was passing through the sown fields, and his disciples began to pluck the ears of grain along the way.

24. And the Pharisees said to him, "See what they are doing on the Sabbath that they are not supposed to do?

25. He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need, and he was hungry and those who were with him?"

26. How did he enter into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and eat the showbread, which was not to be eaten by anyone except the priests, and gave it also to those who were with him?

27. And he said to them, "The Sabbath is made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

28. therefore the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.