Luke 5:17-34

¹⁷And it was done in one of the days, he sat, and taught; and there were Pharisees sitting, and doctors of the law, that came from or of each castle of Galilee, and of Judea, and of Jerusalem; and the virtue of the Lord was to heal sick men.

¹⁸And lo! men bare in a bed a man that was sick in palsy, and they sought to bear him in, and set before him.

¹⁹And they found not in what part they should bear him in, for the people, and they went upon the roof, and by the slates they let him down with the bed, into the midst, before Jesus.

²⁰And when Jesus saw the faith of them, he said, Man, thy sins be forgiven to thee.

²¹And the scribes and the Pharisees began to think, saying, Who is this, that speaketh blasphemies? who may forgive sins, but God alone?

²²And as Jesus knew the thoughts of them, he answered, and said to them, What think ye evil things in your hearts?

²³What is lighter to say, Sins be forgiven to thee, or to say, Rise up, and walk?

²⁴But that ye know, that man’s Son hath power in earth to forgive sins, he said to the sick man in palsy, I say to thee, rise up, take thy bed, and go into thine house.

²⁵And anon he rose up before them, and took the bed in which he lay, and went into his house, and magnified God.

²⁶And great wonder took all, and they magnified God; and they were full-filled with great dread, and said, For we have seen marvelous things today.

²⁷And after these things Jesus went out, and saw a publican, Levi by name, sitting at the tollbooth. And he said to him, Pursue thou me;

²⁸and when he had left all things, he rose up, and pursued him.

²⁹And Levi made to him a great feast in his house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others that were with them, sitting at the meat.

³⁰And the Pharisees and the scribes of them grutched, and said to his disciples, Why eat ye and drink with publicans, and sinful men?

³¹And Jesus answered, and said to them, They that be whole have no need to a leech, but they that be sick or they that have evil;

³²for I came not to call just men, but sinful men to penance.

³³And they said to him, Why the disciples of John fast oft, and make prayers, also and of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?

³⁴To whom he said, Whether ye may make the sons of the spouse to fast, while the spouse is with them?