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And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?
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which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?
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`And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'
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And presently having risen before them, having taken up [that] on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,
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and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying -- `We saw strange things to-day.'
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And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;'
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and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.
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And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),
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and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'
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And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:
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I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'