Isaiah 43:18-25

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¹⁸“Forget the former things;^(A)
    do not dwell on the past.
¹⁹See, I am doing a new thing!^(B)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(C)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(D)
²⁰The wild animals^(E) honor me,
    the jackals^(F) and the owls,
because I provide water^(G) in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
²¹    the people I formed^(H) for myself^(I)
    that they may proclaim my praise.^(J)

²²“Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,
    you have not wearied^(K) yourselves for^[a] me, Israel.^(L)
²³You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,^(M)
    nor honored^(N) me with your sacrifices.^(O)
I have not burdened^(P) you with grain offerings
    nor wearied you with demands^(Q) for incense.^(R)
²⁴You have not bought any fragrant calamus^(S) for me,
    or lavished on me the fat^(T) of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins
    and wearied^(U) me with your offenses.^(V)

²⁵“I, even I, am he who blots out
your transgressions,^(W) for my own sake,^(X)
and remembers your sins^(Y) no more.^(Z)

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Isaiah 43:22 Or Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of

Mark 2:1-12

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Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man^(A)

2 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. ²They gathered in such large numbers^(B) that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. ³Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,^(C) carried by four of them. ⁴Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. ⁵When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”^(D)

⁶Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, ⁷“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”^(E)

⁸Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? ⁹Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? ¹⁰But I want you to know that the Son of Man^(F) has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, ¹¹“I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” ¹²He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God,^(G) saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”^(H)