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1 When
he entered again
into Capernaum
after some days,
it was heard that
he was at
home.
2 Immediately
many were gathered
together, so that
there was no
more room, not
even around the
door; and he
spoke the word
to them.
3 Four people
came, carrying a
paralytic to him.
4 When
they could not
come near to him
for the crowd,
they removed the
roof where he
was. When they
had broken it
up, they let
down the mat
that the paralytic
was lying on.
5 Jesus,
seeing their faith,
said to the
paralytic,
“Son, your sins
are forgiven you.”
6 But
there were some
of the scribes
sitting there and
reasoning in their
hearts,
7 “Why
does this man
speak blasphemies like
that? Who
can forgive sins but
God alone?”
8 Immediately
Jesus, perceiving
in his spirit
that they so
reasoned within
themselves, said
to them,
“Why do you
reason these
things in your
hearts?
9 Which is easier,
to tell the
paralytic, ‘Your sins
are forgiven;’ or
to say, ‘Arise,
and take up
your bed, and
walk’?
10 But that you
may know that
the Son of
Man has
authority on
earth to forgive sins”—he said to
the paralytic—
11 “I tell you,
arise, take up
your mat, and
go to your
house.”
12 He
arose, and
immediately took
up the mat
and went out
in front of
them all, so
that they were
all amazed and
glorified God,
saying, “We never
saw anything like
this!”
13 He
went out again
by the seaside.
All the multitude
came to him,
and he taught
them.
14 As
he passed by,
he saw Levi
the son of Alphaeus
sitting at the
tax office. He
said to him,
“Follow me.”
And he arose
and followed him.
15 He
was reclining at
the table in
his house, and
many tax
collectors and sinners
sat down with
Jesus and his
disciples, for
there were many,
and they followed
him.
16 The
scribes and the
Pharisees, when
they saw that
he was eating
with the sinners
and tax collectors,
said to his
disciples, “Why is
it that he
eats and drinks
with tax
collectors and sinners?”
17 When
Jesus heard it, he
said to them,
“Those who are
healthy have no
need for a
physician, but
those who are
sick. I came
not to call
the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.”
18 John’s
disciples and the
Pharisees were
fasting, and they
came and asked
him, “Why do
John’s disciples
and the disciples
of the Pharisees
fast, but your
disciples don’t
fast?”
19 Jesus
said to them,
“Can the groomsmen
fast while the
bridegroom is
with them? As
long as they
have the
bridegroom with
them, they can’t
fast.
20 But the days
will come when
the bridegroom
will be taken away
from them, and
then they will
fast in that
day.
21 No one sews
a piece
of unshrunk cloth
on an old
garment, or else
the patch shrinks
and the new tears
away from the
old, and a
worse hole is
made.
22 No one puts new
wine into
old wineskins; or
else the new
wine will burst
the skins, and
the wine pours
out, and
the skins will
be destroyed; but
they put new
wine into
fresh wineskins.”
23 He
was going on
the Sabbath day
through the grain
fields; and his
disciples began,
as they went,
to pluck the ears
of grain.
24 The
Pharisees said to
him, “Behold, why
do they do
that which is
not lawful on
the Sabbath day?”
25 He
said to them,
“Did you
never read what
David did when
he had need
and was hungry—he, and those who
were with him?
26 How he entered
into God’s house
at the time
of Abiathar the
high priest, and
ate the
show bread, which
is not lawful
to eat except
for the priests,
and gave also
to those who
were with
him?”
27 He
said to them,
“The Sabbath
was made for
man, not man
for the Sabbath.
28 Therefore the
Son of Man
is lord even
of the
Sabbath.”