4. But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
5. For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
6. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
7. And he rose and went home.
8. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9. As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
10. And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
11. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12. But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
13. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
14. Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
15. And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
16. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
17. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
18. While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
19. And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
20. And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment,