Mark 2

¹And when he had again entered into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.

²And immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even at the door, and he was speaking the word to them.

³And they come, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four men.

⁴And being unable to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof where he was, and having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

⁵And when Jesus saw their faith, he says to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven.'

⁶Now there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts:

⁷Why does this man speak in this way? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive sins except one, namely God?

⁸And immediately Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they were reasoning thus among 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 earth to forgive sins" - he says to the paralytic:

¹¹I say to you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your home.

¹²And he arose, and immediately, taking up the mat, he went out before them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw anything like this!'

¹³And he went out again beside the sea, and the whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

¹⁴And passing along, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he says to him, 'Follow me.' And rising up, he followed him.

¹⁵And it happened that, as he was reclining at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining together with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they were following him.

¹⁶And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, were saying to his disciples, 'Why is it that he eats and drinks with the tax collectors and sinners?'

¹⁷And having heard it, Jesus says to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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 wedding hall 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 is taken away from them, and then they will fast, in that day.

²¹And no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; but if not, the new pulls the fullness away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear comes about.

²²And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins will perish; but new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

²³And it came to pass that he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain.

²⁴And the Pharisees were saying to him, 'Look, why do they do on the Sabbath what is not lawful?'

²⁵And he himself says to them: 'Have you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?'

²⁶how he entered into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and he 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.'

²⁸So then the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.