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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.
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And immediately standing up before them, having taken up that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying God.
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And astonishment seized all, 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 tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.
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And having left all, rising up, he followed him.
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And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.
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And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?
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And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.
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I am not come to call righteous [persons], but sinful [ones] to repentance.
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And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?
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And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?