2 After a few days, He entered into Capernaum again. And word spread that He was in the house.

² And many gathered together, so much so that the places outside the door could not receive any more. And He preached the Word to them.

³ And four men came to Him carrying a paralytic.

⁴ And since they could not come near to Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof of the house where He was. And when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the sick man lay.

⁵ Now when Jesus saw their faith, He said to the sick man, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

⁶ And some of the scribes were sitting there, reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ “Why does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God only?”

⁸ And immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that thus they reasoned with themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

⁹ “Is it easier to say to the paralyzed, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say, ‘Arise, 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 sick man,

¹¹ “Arise. Take up your bed and go to your own house.”

¹² And he rose immediately, and took up his bed, and went forth before them all. And they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw such a thing!”

¹³ Then He went forth again toward the sea. And all the people followed Him, and He taught them.

¹⁴ And as Jesus passed by, He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sit at the tax collector’s table. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he arose and followed Him.

¹⁵ And it happened that, as Jesus sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners also sat at table with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many who followed Him.

¹⁶ And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw Him eat with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with them?”

¹⁷ Now when Jesus heard it, He said to them, “The healthy have no need of the Physician, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinners, to repentance.”

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and the Pharisees fasted, and came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, and Your disciples do not?”

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, “Can the children of the marriage chamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the Bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

²⁰ “But the days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken from them. And then shall they fast, in those days.

²¹ “Also no one sows a piece of new cloth in an old garment. For the new piece that filled it up will take away somewhat from the old. And the breach is worse.

²² “Likewise, no one puts new wine into old vessels. For the new wine will break the vessels, and the wine will run out, and the vessels are lost. But new wine must be put into new vessels.”

²³ And it happened that as He went through the corn on the Sabbath day, His disciples (as they went on their way) began to pluck the ears of corn.

²⁴ And the Pharisees said to Him, “Why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful?”

²⁵ And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry; both he and those who were with him?

²⁶ “How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar, the High Priest, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful to eat, but only for the priests. And how he gave also to those who were with him?”

²⁷ And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

²⁸ “So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”