32 (A)I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

33 (B)(C)[a]Then they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees also, but thine eat and drink?

34 [b]And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:33 It is the point of hypocrites and ignorant men to put an holiness in fasting, and in things indifferent.
  2. Luke 5:34 Laws generally made without any consideration of circumstances, for fasting and other things of like sort, are not only tyrannous, but very hurtful in the Church.

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