Matthew 9:6-16

6 "But so that you may know that ¹the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins "-then He said to the ²paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home."

7 And he got up and went home.

8 But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and ³glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew Called

9 ⁴As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called ⁵Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth; and He said to him, "⁶Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

10 Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.

11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "⁷Why * is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"

12 But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not ⁸those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

13 "But go and learn ⁹what this means: '¹⁰I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for ¹¹I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

The Question about Fasting

14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, "Why * do we and ¹²the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

15 And Jesus said to them, "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot * mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is 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 patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 8:20; John 5:27
• 2. Matthew 4:24; Matthew 9:2
• 3. Matthew 5:16; Matthew 15:31; Mark 2:12; Luke 2:20; Luke 5:25, 26; Luke 7:16; Luke 13:13; Luke 17:15; Luke 23:47; John 15:8; Acts 4:21; Acts 11:18; Acts 21:20; 2 Corinthians 9:13; Galatians 1:24
• 4. Matthew 9:9-17: {Mark 2:14-22; Luke 5:27-38}
• 5. Matthew 10:3; Mark 2:14; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13
• 6. Matthew 8:22
• 7. Matthew 11:19; Mark 2:16; Luke 5:30; Luke 15:2
• 8. Mark 2:17; Luke 5:31
• 9. Matthew 12:7
• 10. Hosea 6:6
• 11. Mark 2:17; Luke 5:32; 1 Timothy 1:15
• 12. Luke 18:12

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "departed"
• [b]. Lit "afraid"
• [c]. Lit "He"
• [d]. I.e. irreligious Jews
• [e]. Lit "what is"
• [f]. Or "mercy"
• [g]. I.e. more than
• [h]. Lit "sons of the wedding place"
• [i]. Lit "that which is put on"
• [j]. Lit "that which fills up"