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“They say He is “a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.”
“” And instead of giving them an affirmative reply, “I am that Messiah,” He said, “Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”
““And they that bare it stood still,” and after that, without touching the young man, He said in a louder voice, “Young man, I say unto thee, arise!”
“Saith He, after putting the parable concerning the two debtors, “Which of them shall love him most?”
“Was it not said of Him, “Behold a drunken man and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners”?”