Matthew 9:1-17

1Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over the sea and came to 1His own city.

22And they brought to Him a 3paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “4Take courage, 5son; 6your sins are forgiven.” 3And some of the scribes said 7to themselves, “This fellow 8blasphemes.” 4And Jesus 9knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? 5Which is easier, to say, ‘10Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’? 6But so that you may know that 11the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”--then He said to the 12paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.” 7And he got up and 13went home. 8But when the crowds saw this, they were 14awestruck, and 15glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

916As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called 17Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He said to him, “18Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

10Then it happened that as 19Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and 20sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “21Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” 12But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not 22those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. 13But go and learn 2324what this means: ‘25I desire 26compassion, 27and not sacrifice,’ for 28I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

14Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, “Why do we and 29the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 15And Jesus said to them, “The 30attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16But no one puts 31a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for 32the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. 17Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”