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

16 And when the scribes and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, 'How is it that he eateth and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?'

17 And when Jesus heard this, he said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are 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 tear off the old, and the hole will be 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 came to pass on the Sabbath day that he was passing through the fields that had been sown, and his disciples began to pluck the ears of grain by the way.

24 And the Pharisees said to him, 'See what they do on the Sabbath that they ought not to do.'

25 And he said to them, 'Have you never read what David did when he was in need, and he hungered, and those who were with him?'

26 And how did he enter into the house of God under Abiathar the high priest, and eat of the showbread, which no man was to eat except the priests, and gave 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.