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29 aThen Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And bthere were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.  
30 1And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, a“Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”  
31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
32 aI have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”  

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting

33 Then they said to Him, a“Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”  
34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the abridegroom is with them?  
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
36 aThen He spoke a parable to them: “No one1 puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.  
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Luke 5:27-32

See the notes at Matthew 9:9-13.

Luke 5:29

Made him a great feast - This circumstance "Matthew," or "Levi" as he is here called, has omitted in his own gospel. This fact shows how little inclined the evangelists are to say anything in favor of themselves or to praise themselves. True religion does not seek to commend itself, or to speak of what it does, even when it is done for the Son of God. It seeks retirement; it delights rather in the consciousness of doing well than in its being known; and it leaves its good deeds to be spoken of, if spoken of at all, by others. This is agreeable to the direction of Solomon Proverbs 27:2; "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." This feast was made expressly for our Lord, and was attended by many publicans, probably people of wicked character; and it is not improbable that Matthew got them together for the purpose of bringing them into contact with our Lord to do them good. Our Saviour did not refuse to go, and to go, too, at the risk of being accused of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, Matthew 11:19. But his motives were pure. In the thing itself there was no harm. It afforded an opportunity of doing good, and we have no reason to doubt that the opportunity was improved by the Lord Jesus. Happy would it be if all the "great feasts" that are made were made in honor of our Lord; happy if he would be a welcome guest there; and happy if ministers and pious people who attend them demeaned themselves as the Lord Jesus did, and they were always made the means of advancing his kingdom. But, alas! there are few places where our Lord would be "so unwelcome" as at great feasts, and few places that serve so much to render the mind gross, dissipated, and irreligious.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Luke 5:31:

Titus 2:8

 

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