Matthew 9:9-17 And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me! And he arose and followed Him.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me! And he arose and followed Him. ¹⁰ And it happened as Jesus reclined in the house, behold, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Him and His disciples. ¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw, they said to His disciples, Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and sinners? ¹² But when Jesus heard, He said to them, The ones who are whole do not need a physician, but the ones who are sick. ¹³ But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast? ¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast. ¹⁶ No one puts a piece of new cloth onto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the tear is made worse. ¹⁷ Nor do men put new wine into old wineskins; else the wineskins burst, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.