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Luke 5:22-42 (AMP)
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22 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts and questionings, answered them, Why do you question in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk ? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has the authority and right on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralyzed man, I say to you, arise, pick up your litter (stretcher), and go to your own house! 25 And instantly stood up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went away to his house, recognizing and praising and thanking God. 26 And overwhelming astonishment and ecstasy seized them all, and they recognized and praised and thanked God; and they were filled with and controlled by reverential fear and kept saying, We have seen wonderful and strange and incredible and unthinkable things today! 27 And after this, Jesus went out and looked at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me. 28 And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him . 29 And Levi (Matthew) made a great banquet for Him in his own house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. 30 Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus' disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinful people? 31 And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but the erring ones (those not free from sin) to repentance . 33 Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of petition, and so do of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink. 34 And Jesus said to them, Can you make the wedding guests fast as long as the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in those days. 36 He told them a proverb also: No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment; if he does, he will both tear the new one, and the patch from the new will not match the old . 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed). 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine immediately desires new wine, for he says, The old is good or better.
This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 33) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)
(v. 34) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)
(v. 35) Fasting - Jesus - asked why his disciples were not fasting (Luke)
This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 29) Contagious Christian - A Matthew Party (2010-11-01)
(v. 29) Contagious Christian - Matthew's Interpersonal Approach (2010-11-08)
(v. 31) No one like him - His Compassion and Love (2009-05-11)
Definition(s):
Jesus (Jeez-us): savior; deliverer
Levi (Lee-vi): associated with him
Pharisees (Fehr-iss-ees): set apart
