Luke 5:33
Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” 1 The Superiority of the New
34And He said to them, “Can you make the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Cross References
Matthew 9:14Then the disciples of John approached Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”
Mark 2:18And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 18:12I fast twice a week, I tithe on 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 →