Luke 5:21-39 ▼

21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks evil words? Who is able to forgive sins, except God only?”

22 And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said to them, “What reason you in your hearts?

23 Which is easier—to say, Your sins have been forgiven you? Or to say, Arise, and walk?

24 And that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins—(He said to the one struck with palsy)—I say to you, arise, and having taken up your little bed, be going on to your house.”

25 And immediately having risen before them, having taken up [that] on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,

26 and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying, “We saw strange things today.”

27 And after these things He went forth, and beheld a tax collector, by name Levi, sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow Me”;

28 and he, having left all, having arisen, followed Him.

29 And Levi made a great entertainment to Him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax collectors and others who were with them reclining,

30 and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 And Jesus answering said to them, “They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

32 I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to conversion.”

33 And they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications—in like manner also those of the Pharisees—but Yours eat and drink?”

34 And He said to them, “Are you able to make the sons of the bride-chamber—in the Bridegroom being with them—to fast?

35 But days will come, and when the Bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”

36 And He spoke also an allegory to them: “No one puts a patch of new clothing on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also makes a split, and with the old the patch does not agree, that [is] from the new.

37 And no one puts new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

38 but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved together;

39 and no one having drunk old, immediately wishes new, for he says, The old is better.”