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And lo! some of the scribes said within themselves, This blasphemeth.
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And when Jesus had seen their thoughts, he said, Whereto think ye evil things in your hearts?
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What is lighter to say, Thy sins be forgiven to thee, either to say [or to say], Rise thou, and walk?
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But that ye know that man's Son hath power to forgive sins in earth, then he said to the sick man in palsy [then he said to the man sick in palsy], Rise up; take thy bed, and go into thine house.
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And he rose, and went into his house.
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And the people seeing dreaded [Soothly the companies seeing dreaded], and glorified God, that gave such power to men.
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And when Jesus passed from thence, he saw a man, Matthew by name, sitting in a tollbooth. And he said to him, Follow thou me. And he rose, and followed him.
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And it was done, while he sat at the meat in the house, lo! many publicans and sinful men came, and sat at the meat with Jesus and his disciples. [And it was done, him sitting at the meat in the house, lo! many publicans and sinful men coming sat at the meat with Jesus and his disciples.]
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And the Pharisees saw, and said to his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinful men?
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And Jesus heard, and said, A physician is not needful to men that fare well, but to men that be evil-at-ease. [And Jesus hearing said, A leech is not needful to men that fare well, but to men having evil.]
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But go ye, and learn what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice; for I came, not to call rightful men [forsooth I came, not to call rightwise men], but sinful men to penance.