17On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was on Jesus, so that he could work cures.)
18And there some men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed. They tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus;
19but, finding no way of getting him in owing to the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him through the tiles, with his pallet, into the middle of the people and in front of Jesus.
20When he saw their faith, Jesus said, “Friend, your sins have been forgiven you.”
21The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. “Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?” they asked. “Who can forgive sins except God?”
22When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed, “What are you debating with yourselves?
23Which is the easier? — to say ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’?
24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” — he spoke to the paralyzed man — “To you I say, Get up, and take up your pallet, and go to your home.”
25Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.
26The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said, “We have seen marvelous things today!”
27After this, Jesus went out; and he noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting in the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me.”
28Levi left everything and got up and followed him.
29And Levi gave a great entertainment at his house, in honor of Jesus; and a large number of tax-gatherers and others were having dinner with them.
30The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus.
31In answer Jesus said, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are ill.
32I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent.”
33“John's disciples,” they said to Jesus, “Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!”
34But Jesus answered them, “Can you make the groom's friends fast while the groom is with them?
Luke 5
Luke 5:17-34