10. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He said to the paralytic,
11. “I say to you, rise, and take up your bed, and go your way to your house.”
12. Immediately he rose, picked up the bed, and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
13. He went out again by the seaside, and the whole crowd came to Him, and He taught them.
14. As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s station, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he rose and followed Him.
15. As Jesus was at supper in his house, many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many, and they followed Him.
16. When the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
17. When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
18. Now the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
19. Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.
21. “No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment, or else the new piece that covered it tears away from the old, and the tear is made worse.