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Immediately Jesus, aware ^[e]in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, "Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

Which is easier, to say to the ^(h)paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven'; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk'?

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" —He *said to the paralytic,

"I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home."

And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and ⁽ⁱ⁾were glorifying God, saying, "^(j)We have never seen anything like this."

And He went out again by the seashore; and ^(k)all the ^[f]people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.

^(l)As He passed by, He saw ^[g](m)Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He *said to him, "⁽ⁿ⁾Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

And it *^[h]happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and ^[i]sinners ^[j]were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

When ^(o)the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, "^(p)Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and ^[k]sinners?"

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, "^(q)It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

^(r)John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they *came and *said to Him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

And Jesus said to them, "While the bridegroom is with them, ^[l]the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

But the ^(s)days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

"No one sews ^[m]a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise ^[n]the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

^(t)And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while ^(u)picking the heads of grain.