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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,
