Luke 5:36-39

Here we have the second part of the conversation. The expression ἔλεγε δὲ καί, and He said also, indicates its range. This expression, which occurs so frequently in Luke, always indicates the point at which Jesus, after having treated of the particular subject before Him, rises to a more general view which commands the whole question. Thus, from this moment He makes the particular difference respecting fasting subordinate to the general opposition between the old and new order of things, an idea which carries Him back to the occasion of the scene, the call of a publican.