¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,^(A) a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’^(B) Yet wisdom is vindicated^[a] by her deeds.”^[b]

²⁹ Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them.^(A)