5. Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, and walk'?
6. But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"-then He said to the paralytic, "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 glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9. As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth; and He said to him, "Follow 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, "Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"