Matthew 9:1-24 ▼

1 And having entered into a boat, He crossed over, and He came into His own city.

2 And behold, they were bringing to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. And Jesus, having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, “Take courage, child; your sins are forgiven.”

3 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This One blasphemes!”

4 And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, “Why do you? think evil in your? hearts?

5 For which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?

6 But so that you? may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...” Then He says to the paralytic, “Having arisen, take up your mat and go to your house.”

7 And having arisen, he went away to his house.

8 And the crowds, having seen, feared and glorified God, the One having given such authority to men.

9 And Jesus, passing on from there, saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and He says to him, “Follow Me.” And having risen up, he followed Him.

10 And it came to pass in His reclining in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners, having come, were reclining with Jesus and His disciples.

11 And having seen, the Pharisees were saying to His disciples, “Why does your? Teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”

12 But having heard, He said, “Those being strong have no need of a physician, but those being ill.

13 But having gone, learn what is ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

14 Then the disciples of John come to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but Your disciples do not fast?”

15 And Jesus said to them, “Are the sons of the bridechamber able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16 But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the filling up of it pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear happens.

17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins; and if otherwise, the wineskins are burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

18 In His speaking these things to them, behold, one ruler, having come, was kneeling down to Him, saying, “My daughter just now died, but having come, lay Your hand upon her, and she will live.”

19 And having arisen, Jesus was following him, as well as His disciples.

20 And behold, a woman having a flow of blood twelve years, having come behind Him, touched the fringe of His garment.

21 For she was saying within herself, “If only I shall touch His garment, I will be saved.”

22 And Jesus, having turned and having seen her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has saved you.” And the woman was saved from that hour.

23 And Jesus, having come into the house of the ruler and having seen the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

24 was saying, “Withdraw, for the girl did not die, but sleeps.” And they were laughing at Him.