Luke 5:33
And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
32I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Zechariah 7:6And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 9:14Then the disciples of John come to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but thy disciples fast not?
Mark 2:18And John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to him, Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but the disciples with you do not fast?
Luke 7:34The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
Luke 18:12I fast twice per Sabbath. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire.
Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39
The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →