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With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
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“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
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to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
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He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
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So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
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When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”
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When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
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The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
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But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
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Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
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And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
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And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
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Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
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A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
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When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
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Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”
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Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
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The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
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Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”
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Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
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Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
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Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
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Additional Teachings
“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
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Sin, Faith, Duty
Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.
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So watch yourselves. “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.
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Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”
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“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
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“All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
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So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
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All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
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Paying Taxes to Caesar
Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.
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Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
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and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
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But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
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‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
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but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
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and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
