Bible Verses

Calls Levi: Shares the Table with Sinners When Jesus went out again beside the lake, a crowd gathered, and he taught them.

The man rose and in front of everyone, he picked up his mat and left. They were all amazed and praised God, saying: ‘Never have we seen anything like this!’

‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home.’”

But now, you will know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. And he said to the paralytic:

Is it easier to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your mat and walk?’ 

Jesus immediately knew in his spirit what they were thinking and asked: “Why do you wonder? 

 “How can he speak like this, insulting God? Who else can forgive sins but God?”

 Now, some teachers of the law, who were sitting there, wondered to themselves: 

When Jesus saw the faith of those people, he told the paralytic: “My son, your sins are forgiven.”

The four men who carried him couldn’t get close to Jesus because of the crowd, so they opened the roof above the room where Jesus was and lowered the man on his mat through the hole.