24. `And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins--(he said to the one struck with palsy) --I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'
25. And presently having risen before them, having taken up [that] on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,
26. and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying--`We saw strange things to-day.'
27. And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;'
28. and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.
29. And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),
30. and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'
31. And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:
32. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
33. And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications--in like manner also those of the Pharisees--but thine do eat and drink?'