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Luke 5:18 Now the power of the Lord was with Jesus The old and the new to heal. 18 Some men were bringing a man 33Some people said to Jesus, "The disciwho was paralyzed, lying on a cot. They ples of John fast often and pray frequently. wanted to carry him in and place him be- The disciples of the Pharisees do the same, fore Jesus, but they couldn't reach him but your disciples are always eating and because of the crowd. So they took him up drinking." on the roof and lowered him-cot and all — 34 Jesus replied, "You can't make the through the roof tiles into the crowded wedding guests fast while the groom is with room in front of Jesus. 20When Jesus saw them, can you? 35 The days will come when their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are the groom will be taken from them, and forgiven.”
then they will fast." 21 The legal experts and Pharisees began to 36 Then he told them a parable. “No one mutter among themselves, “Who is this who tears a patch from a new garment to patch insults God? Only God can forgive sins!" an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment
22 Jesus recognized what they were dis- would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't cussing and responded, “Why do you fill match the old garment. 37 Nobody pours new your minds with these questions? 23Which wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new is easier-to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' wine would burst the wineskins, the wine or to say, 'Get up and walk? 24But so that would spill, and the wineskins would be ruyou will know that the Human One has au- ined. 38 Instead, new wine must be put into thority on the earth to forgive sins”—Jesus new wineskins. 39 No one who drinks a wellnow spoke to the man who was paralyzed, aged wine wants new wine, but says, 'The “I say to you, get up, take your cot, and go well-aged wine is better.” home." 25 Right away, the man stood before them, picked up his cot, and went home, Activities on the Sabbath praising God.
One Sabbath, as Jesus was going 26 All the people were beside themselves through the wheat fields, his disciples with wonder. Filled with awe, they glori- were picking the heads of wheat, rubbing fied God, saying, “We've seen unimaginable them in their hands, and eating them. things today.”
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ing the Sabbath law?" Jesus calls a tax collector
* Jesus replied, “Haven't you read what 27 Afterward, Jesus went out and saw a David and his companions did when they tax collector named Levi sitting at a kiosk were hungry? "He broke the Law by going for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, into God's house and eating the bread of “Follow me.”
the presence, which only the priests can 28 Levi got up, left everything behind, eat. He also gave some of the bread to his and followed him. 2°Then Levi threw a great companions.” SThen he said to them, “The banquet for Jesus in his home. A large num- Human One" is Lord of the Sabbath." ber of tax collectors and others sat down to On another Sabbath, Jesus entered a eat with them. 30 The Pharisees and their synagogue to teach. A man was there whose legal experts grumbled against his disciples. right hand was withered. The legal experts They said, “Why do you eat and drink with and the Pharisees were watching him closely tax collectors and sinners?"
to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. They 31 Jesus answered, “Healthy people don't were looking for a reason to bring charges need a doctor, but sick people do. 32 I didn't against him. 8 Jesus knew their thoughts, so come to call righteous people but sinners to he said to the man with the withered hand, change their hearts and lives."
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