20. And when he saw his faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
21. And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: "Who is this, who is speaking blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins, except God alone?"
22. But when Jesus realized their thoughts, responding, he said to them: "What are you thinking in your hearts?
23. Which is easier to say: 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise up and walk?'
24. But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins," he said to the paralytic, "I say to you to: Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house."
25. And at once, rising up in their sight, he took up the bed on which he was lying, and he went away to his own house, magnifying God.
26. And astonishment took hold of everyone, and they were magnifying God. And they were filled with fear, saying: "For we have seen miracles today."
27. And after these things, he went out, and he saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, "Follow me."
28. And leaving behind everything, rising up, he followed him.
29. And Levi made a great feast for him in his own house. And there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others, who were sitting at table with them.
30. But the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
31. And responding, Jesus said to them: "It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies.
32. I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance."
33. But they said to him, "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees act similarly, while yours eat and drink?"
34. And he said to them: "How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them?
35. But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days."
36. Then he also made a comparison for them: "For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Otherwise, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one.