Mark 2
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v1
When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.
v2
Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
v3
Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
v4
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.
v5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, โSon, your sins are forgiven you.โ
v6
But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
v7
โWhy does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?โ
v8
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, โWhy do you reason these things in your hearts?
v9
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, โYour sins are forgiven;โ or to say, โArise, and take up your bed, and walk?โ
v10
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sinsโโhe said to the paralyticโ
v11
โI tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.โ
v12
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, โWe never saw anything like this!โ
v13
He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
v14
As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, โFollow me.โ And he arose and followed him.
v15
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.
v16
The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, โWhy is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?โ
v17
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, โThose 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.โ
v18
Johnโs disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, โWhy do Johnโs disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples donโt fast?โ
v19
Jesus said to them, โCan the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they canโt fast.
v20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
v21
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.
v22
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.โ
v23
He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
v24
The Pharisees said to him, โBehold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?โ
v25
He said to them, โDid you never read what David did when he had need and was hungryโhe, and those who were with him?
v26
How he entered into Godโs 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?โ
v27
He said to them, โThe Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
v28
Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.โ