Luke 5:23-36
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23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
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24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
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25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
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26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
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27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
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28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
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29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
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30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
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32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
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34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
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36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.