New Testament in a Year

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

¹⁷ And it happened that ^[a]one day He was teaching; and ^(A)there were some Pharisees and ^(B)teachers of the law sitting there, who had ^(C)come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and ^(D)the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing. ^18 (E)And behold, some men were carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down before Him. ¹⁹ But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on ^(F)the roof and let him down ^(G)through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. ²⁰ And seeing their faith, He said, “^[b]Friend, ^(H)your sins are forgiven you.” ²¹ The scribes and the Pharisees ^(I)began to reason, saying, “^(J)Who is this who speaks blasphemies? ^(K)Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” ²² But Jesus, ^[c]knowing their reasonings, answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³ Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get 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 ^(L)paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and, picking up your stretcher, go home.” ²⁵ And immediately he rose up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home ^(M)glorifying God. ²⁶ And astonishment seized them all and they began ^(N)glorifying God; and they were filled ^(O)with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

Levi and Sinners Called

^27 (P)And after that He went out and noticed a tax collector named ^[d](Q)Levi sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” ²⁸ And he ^(R)left everything behind, and rose up and began to follow Him.

²⁹ And ^(S)Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of ^(T)tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. ^30 (U)And the Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and ^[e]sinners?” ³¹ And Jesus answered and said to them, “^(V)It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

³³ And they said to Him, “^(W)The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do likewise, but Yours eat and drink.” ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, “Can you make the ^[f]attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? ^35 (X)But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶ And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new and the piece from the new will not match the old. ³⁷ And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ³⁹ And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”