eating with the | Why eateth your | his disciples, sinners and | [2]Master with the | saying, Why do ye publicans, said unto| publicans and | eat and drink with his disciples, [6]He| sinners? | the publicans and eateth [7]and | | sinners? drinketh with | | publicans and | | 17 sinners. And when |12 But when he |31 And Jesus Jesus heard it, he | heard it, he said, | answering said saith unto them, | They that are | unto them, They They that are | [3]whole have no | that are [3]whole [3]whole have no | need of a physician,| have no need of a need of a physician,| but they that are | physician; but but they that are |13 sick. But go ye and | they that are sick: I came not to | learn what _this_ |32 sick. I am not call the righteous, | meaneth,[a] I desire| come to call the but sinners. | mercy, and not | righteous but | sacrifice: for I | sinners to | came not to call the| repentance. | righteous, but | | sinners. | [Footnote 1: Gr. _reclined_: and so always.] [Footnote 2: Or, _Teacher_.] [Footnote 3: Gr. _strong_.] [Footnote 4: That is, _collectors or renters of Roman taxes_: and so elsewhere.] [Footnote 5: Some ancient authorities read _and the Pharisees_.] [Footnote 6: Or, How is it _that he eateth ... sinners?_] [Footnote 7: Some ancient authorities omit _and drinketh_.] [Footnote 8: Or, _the Pharisees and the scribes among them_.] [Footnote a: Hos. 6:6.] § 48. JESUS IN THREE PARABLES DEFENDS HIS DISCIPLES FOR FEASTING[a] INSTEAD OF FASTING