Luke 5:21-39 ▼

21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason with themselves, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can remit sins but God alone?

22 And Jesus having known their reflections, having answered, said to them, What do ye reason with yourselves in your hearts?

23 Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are remitted to thee; or to say, Arise and walk?

24 And that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to remit sins, (he said to him affected with paralysis,) I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy conch, go into thy house.

25 And immediately having risen before them, having taken up on what he lay, he went away to his house, honouring God.

26 And amazement took them all, and they honoured God, and were filled with fear, saying, That we have seen wonderful things to day.

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

28 And having left all, having risen, he followed him.

29 And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house: and there was a great crowd of publicans and others who were sitting down with them.

30 And the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Wherefore eat and drink ye with publicans and sinful?

31 And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Those being in good health have no need of a physician; but they being ill.

32 I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.

33 And they said to him, Wherefore do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make prayers, and likewise they of the Pharisees; and they to thee eat and drink.

34 And he said to them, Ye cannot make the sons of the nuptial chamber fast, when the bridegroom is with them.

35 But the days will come also, when the bridegroom shall be carried away from them; then shall they fast in those days.

36 And he also spake to them a parable; That none put a piece of new garment, upon an old garment; and if not so, the new also splits, and the piece from the new agrees not with the old.

37 And none put new wine into old wine-skins; and if not so, the new wine bursts the wine-skins, and it will be poured out, and the wine-skins will perish.

38 But new wine cast into new wine-skins; and both are kept.

39 And none drinking old, quickly desires new, for he says, The old is better.