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Luke - ch 5 v 21 - 39
- And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason in their minds, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?
- But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to them, Why reason ye in your hearts?
- which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
- But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.
- And immediately standing up before them, having taken up that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying God.
- And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.
- And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.
- And having left all, rising up, he followed him.
- And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.
- And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?
- And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.
- I am not come to call righteous persons, but sinful ones to repentance.
- And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?
- And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?
- But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.
- And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.
- And no one puts new wine into old skins, otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;
- but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved.
- And no one having drunk old wine straightway wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.
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