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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
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But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering, said to them, What reason ye in your hearts?
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Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise and walk?
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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, He said to the sick with the palsy, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thy house.
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And immediately he arose before them, and took up that on which he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
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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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And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him, Follow me.
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And he left all, arose, and followed him.
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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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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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And Jesus answering, said to them, They that are well need not a physician; but they that are sick.