\subsection{Matthew 9}
\subsubsection{Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic}
\VS{1} And having stepped into the boat, he crossed over and came to his own city. 
\VS{2} And behold they were bringing to him [a] paralytic lying on [a] bed. And 
Jesus having seen their belief he said to the paralytic: Be taking courage, 
child, your sins are forgiven you. 
\VS{3} And behold some of the scribes 
said among themselves: This [man] slanders [God]. 
\VS{4} And Jesus having known their 
thoughts said: For what reason do you think wicked\fnPoneros{} [things] in your hearts? 
\VS{5} For which is easier, to say: Your sins are forgiven, or to say: Be rising 
and be walking? 
\VS{6} But that you may see that the son of man has 
authority on the earth to be forgiving sins --- then he says to the paralytic: 
Be rising, carry your bed and be going to your own house. 
\VS{7} And having arisen, he departed to his own house. 
\VS{8} And having seen [this], the crowd was 
afraid\footnote{``afraid'' \sinaiticus{}BDW \vulgate{} \hesychian{}; ``astonished'' \koine{} } and glorified God who gave such authority to men.

\subsubsection{The Call of Matthew; Eating with Sinners}
\VS{9} And proceeding from there Jesus saw [a] man sitting at [a] tax-booth, 
called Matthew, and he says to him: Be following me. And having stood up, he 
followed him. 
\VS{10} And it came to pass when he was seated at table in the 
house that, behold, many tax-collectors and sinners came and sat down at 
table with Jesus and his disciples. 
\VS{11} And the Pharisees having seen 
this were saying to his disciples: Why does your teacher eat with 
tax-collectors and sinners? 
\VS{12} But having heard this he said: The 
healthy have no need of [a] physician, rather those having [it] evil-ly. 
\VS{13} But go and learn what it means\footnote{Hos.6:6}: 

\begin{verse}
I desire mercy and not sacrifice. 
\end{verse}

For I did not come to call [the] just, but sinners. 

\subsubsection{The Superiority of the New}
\VS{14} Then the disciples of John come to him saying: Why do we and the 
Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast? 
\VS{15} And Jesus said to 
them: Can the sons of the bridegroom mourn as long as the groom is with 
them? But the day will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and 
then they will fast. 
\VS{16} For no one puts [a] piece of new cloth on [an] old 
garment, for that which fills it up will take from it, and the tear will 
become worse. 
\VS{17} No one puts new wine into old skins, lest the skins be 
burst, and the wine run out and the skins be ruined. Rather they put new 
wine into new skins and both will be preserved. 

\subsubsection{Restoration and Healing}
\VS{18} [While] he was saying these [things] behold [a] ruler coming to him kneels before him saying: My daughter even now has come to the end. But come and lay your hand 
upon her, and she will zoe-live\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{19} And having arisen, Jesus and his disciples followed him. 
\VS{20} And behold [a] woman having [a] discharge of blood 
for twelve years came after him [and] grasped the hem of his robe. 
\VS{21} For 
she was saying in herself: If only I grasp his robe, I will be saved. 
\VS{22} But Jesus having turned and seen her said: Be taking courage, 
daughter, your belief has made you whole. And the woman was made whole from 
that hour. 
\VS{23} And Jesus having come to the ruler's house and having 
seen the flute players and the crowd making an uproar, 
\VS{24} he was saying: Be withdrawing, for the girl is not dead but sleeps. 
And they were laughing at him. 
\VS{25} Now when the crowd was thrown out, having gone in, 
he took hold of her hand, and the girl arose. 
\VS{26} And this report went out into all that land. 

\subsubsection{Healing the Blind and Mute}
\VS{27} And when Jesus went out from there two blind men followed him crying 
out and saying: Have mercy on us, son of David. 
\VS{28} So when he entered 
into the house, the blind men came in to him, and Jesus says to them: Do you 
believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yes Lord. 

\VS{29} Then 
he touched their eyes saying: According to your belief be it to you. 
\VS{30} And their eyes were opened. And he strictly-charged
%\footnote{also means: ``snort with rage'' } 
them saying: See that no one knows of this. 
\VS{31} But having gone out they made it known to all that land. 

\VS{32} Now when he had gone out, behold they brought to him [a] mute 
who was demon possessed. 
\VS{33} And when the demon had been cast out the mute spoke. And the crowd marveled 
saying: Never was it thus seen in Israel. 
\VS{24} But the Pharisees were 
saying: By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.

\subsubsection{Workers for the Harvest}
\VS{35} And Jesus went about all the cities and all the towns, teaching in 
the synagogues and teaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every 
disease and weakness. 
\VS{36} And having seen the crowd he had compassion 
for them, for they were troubled\footnote{``rent,'' ``mangled''} and thrown 
about as sheep having no shepherd. 
\VS{37} Then he says to his disciples: 
The harvest is great, but the workers are few. 
\VS{38} Therefore ask the 
Lord of the harvest that he throw workers into his harvest.
