f man has power on the earth to forgive sins, (he
said to the palsied man,) I say to thee, arise, and taking up thy
couch go to thy house. (25)And immediately standing up before them, he
took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his house, glorifying
God. (26)And they were all amazed; and they glorified God, and were
filled with fear, saying: We have seen strange things to-day.

(27)And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named
Levi, sitting at the place of receiving custom; and he said to him:
Follow me. (28)And leaving all, he arose and followed him.

(29)And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a
great company of publicans and of others who reclined at the table
with them. (30)And the Pharisees, and their scribes[5:30], murmured
against his disciples, saying: Why do ye eat and drink with the
publicans and sinners? (31)And Jesus answering said to them: They who
are well need not a physician, but they who are sick. (32)I have not
come to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance.

(33)And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and
make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but thine eat and
drink? (34)And he said to them: Can ye make the sons of the
bridechamber fast, [5:34] while the bridegroom is with them? (35)But
days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then
shall they fast in those days. (36)And he spoke also a parable to
them: No one rends a piece from a new garment, and puts it on an old
garment; else both the new will make a rent, and the piece from the
new agrees not with the old. (37)And no one puts new wine into old
skins; else the new wine will burst the skins, and will itself be
poured out, and the skins will perish. (38)But new wine must be put
into new skins, and both are preserved together[5:38]. (39)And no one
having drunk old wine straightway desires new; for he says: The old is
better[5:39].

VI.

AND it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first[6:1], that
he was going through grain-fields; and his disciples plucked and ate
the ears of grain, rubbing them with their hands. (2)And some of the
Pharisees said: Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the
sabbath? (3)And Jesus answering them said: And have ye not read this,
what David did when he hungered, himself and they who were with him;
(4)how he went into the house of God, and took and ate the show-bread,
and gave to those w