Luke 5:21-39 ▼

21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying: Who is this that utters impious words? Who can forgive sins but God alone?

22 But Jesus perceived their reasonings, and answered and said to them: Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

23 Which is easier, to say., Your sins are forgiven you; or to say, Arise and walk?

24 But that you may know that the Son of man on the earth has power to forgive sins, (he said to the paralytic,) I say to you, Arise, and take up your bed, and go to your house.

25 And he immediately arose before them, took up that on which he had been lying, and went away to his own house, glorifying God.

26 And astonishment seized upon all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying: We have seen strange things today.

27 And after these things, he went out and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him: Follow me.

28 And leaving all, he arose and followed him.

29 And Levi made him a great feast at his own house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others, who reclined at table with them.

30 And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

31 And Jesus answered arid said to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.

32 I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.

33 And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?

34 And he said to them: Can you make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them; then shall they fast in those days.

36 And he spoke also a parable to them: No one patches an old garment with a piece taken from a new garment. If so, the new tears it, and the patch from the new suits not the old.

37 And no one puts new wine into old bottles; if so, the new wine will burst the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will be destroyed.

38 But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both will be preserved.

39 And no one, after drinking old wine, immediately desires new; for he says: The old is better.