20. Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21. The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
22. But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
23. Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’
24. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (he said to the paralysed man), “I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house.”
25. Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
26. Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
27. After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”
28. He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
29. Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
30. Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
31. Yeshua answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
32. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
33. They said to him, “Why do Yochanan’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
34. He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
35. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
36. He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
37. No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
38. But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.