Luke 5:21-39 ▼

21 And the scribes and the pharisees, began to thynke, saying: What felowe is this, which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgeue sinnes but God only?

22 But when Iesus perceaued their thoughtes, he aunswered, & sayde vnto them: What thynke ye in your heartes?

23 Whether is easier to say, thy sinnes be forgeuen thee: or to say, ryse vp & walke?

24 But that ye may knowe that the sonne of man hath power to forgeue sinnes on earth (he sayde vnto the sicke of the paulsie) I say vnto thee, aryse, take vp thy bed, and go vnto thy house.

25 And immediatly he rose vp before them, and toke vp his bed, wheron he lay, and departed to his owne house, praysyng God.

26 And they were all amazed, and they gaue the glory vnto God, and were fylled with feare, saying: Doutlesse we haue seene straunge thynges to day.

27 After these thynges, he went foorth, & sawe a publicane named Leui, sittyng at the receipt of custome: and he sayde vnto hym, folowe me.

28 And he left all, rose vp, & folowed him.

29 And Leui made hym a great feast in his owne house. And there was a great companie of publicanes, and of other that sate at meate with them.

30 But they that were scribes and pharisees among them, murmured agaynst his disciples saying: Why do ye eate and drynke with publicanes and sinners?

31 And Iesus aunswered, and saide vnto them, They that are whole, neede not the phisition: But they that are sicke.

32 I came not to call the ryghteous: but sinners to repentaunce.

33 And they sayde vnto hym: Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, & pray, and the disciples of the pharisees also: but thyne eate and drynke?

34 He sayde vnto them. Can ye make the chyldren of the weddyng chaumber fast, whyle the brydegrome in with the?

35 But the dayes wyll come, when the brydegrome also shalbe taken away fro them: then shall they fast in those dayes.

36 He spake also vnto them a similitude. No man putteth a peece of a newe garment, into an olde vesture: For then the newe renteth the olde, and the peece that was taken out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.

37 And no man powreth newe wyne into olde vessels: For yf he do, the newe wyne wyll burst the vessels, and runne out it selfe, and the vessels shall perishe.

38 But newe wine must be put into newe vessels, and both are preserued.

39 No man also that drinketh olde wyne, strayghtway can awaye with newe: For he sayth, the olde is better.