ven thee.

9:3. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He
blasphemeth.

9:4. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in
your hearts?

9:5. Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say,
Arise, and walk?

9:6. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to
forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take
up thy bed, and go into thy house.

9:7. And he arose, and went into his house.

9:8. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave
such power to men.

9:9. And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the
custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he
arose up and followed him.

9:10. And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold
many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his
disciples.

9:11. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your
master eat with publicans and sinners?

9:12. But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a
physician, but they that are ill.

9:13. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not
sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

9:14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the
Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

9:15. And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn,
as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the
bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Can the children of the bridegroom... This, by a Hebraism, signifies the
friends or companions of the bridegroom.

9:16. And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For
it taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made a
greater rent.

9:17. Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the
bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new
wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

9:18. As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler
came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but
come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

9:19. And Jesus rising up followed him, with his disciples.

9:20. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve
years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.