New Testament in a Year

9 And He entered into a boat, and passed over and came into His own city.

² And behold, they brought to Him a man sick with the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the one sick with the palsy, “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”

³ And behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, “This man blasphemeth.”

⁴ And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why think ye evil in your hearts?

⁵ For which is easier: to say, ‘Thy sins be forgiven thee,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?

⁶ But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins,”— (then said He to the one sick with palsy) “Arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house.”

⁷ And he arose and departed to his house.

⁸ But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power unto men.

⁹ And as Jesus passed forth from thence, He saw a man named Matthew, sitting in the customhouse. And He said unto him, “Follow Me.” And he arose and followed Him.

¹⁰ And it came to pass as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto His disciples, “Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners?”

¹² But when Jesus heard that, He said unto them, “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

¹³ But go ye and learn what this meaneth: ‘I will have mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Thy disciples fast not?”

¹⁵ And Jesus said unto them, “Can the attendants of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

¹⁶ “No man putteth a piece of new cloth upon an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

¹⁷ Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins, else the wineskins burst and the wine runneth out and the skins perish. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”