Passage · New Testament
Luke 5:27-38
Luke.5.27-Luke.5.38
Explore this passage in the graph27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. 29Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 33They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” 34Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.” 36He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. Read this passage at the publisher: Read in NIV · Read in ESV
Connections that cite this passage
No reviewed connections yet.
Cross-references
Related passages suggested by the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0, community-voted). These are not FaithGraph evidence; curated connections above carry evidence labels.
- Luke 19:1027 votes
- Luke 15:1022 votes
- 1 Timothy 1:15-1617 votes
- Luke 15:716 votes
- Mark 2:13-2214 votes
- Acts 3:1914 votes
- Mark 2:1713 votes
- Matthew 9:12-1312 votes
- Luke 24:4711 votes
- Matthew 9:16-1710 votes
- Acts 17:309 votes
- Luke 5:119 votes