Mark 2
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1And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he is at home. 2And immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door, and he was speaking the word to them. 3And they come bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four. 4And not being able to bring him to him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where he was, and having dug it out, they let down the mat where the paralytic was lying. 5And Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” 6But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts: 7“Why does this man speak thus? He blasphemes! Who can forgive sins except one, God?” 8And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were thus reasoning within themselves, says to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your mat and walk’? 10But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins”—he says to the paralytic— 11“I say to you, arise, and take up your mat and go to your house.” 12And he arose, and immediately taking up the mat, he went out in front of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw it thus!” 13And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14And passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he says to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him. 15And it happens, as he was reclining at the table in his house, that many tax collectors and sinners were reclining together with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they followed him. 16And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with the tax collectors and sinners?” 17And Jesus, hearing it, says to them, “The healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” 18And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19And Jesus said to them, “Can the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21No one patches a patch of unshrunk cloth upon an old garment; otherwise the fullness takes away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine perishes, and the wineskins will perish; but new wine must be put into new wineskins.” 23And it happened that he was going along on the Sabbath through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the heads of grain. 24And the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing on the Sabbath what is not lawful?” 25And he says to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he and those who were with him? 26How he entered into the house of God at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the loaves of the presentation, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?” 27And he was saying to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28Therefore the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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