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Luke - ch 5 v 21 - 39
- And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
- And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering, he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?
- Which is easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?
- But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say to thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house.
- And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on which he lay; and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.
- And all were astonished; and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to day.
- And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me.
- And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.
- And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them.
- But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
- And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick.
- I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
- And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?
- To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast, whilst the bridegroom is with them?
- But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days.
- And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.
- And no man putteth new wine into old bottle: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost.
- But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
- And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.
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