M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

Jesus Heals a Paralytic To Prove He Has Authority To Forgive Sins

2 And having entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that He was at home^[a]. ² And many were gathered together, so that the house was no longer having-room, not even the places at the door. And He was speaking the word to them. ³ And they come bringing to Him a paralytic being picked-up by four men. ⁴ And not being able to bring him to Him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was. And having dug out an opening, they lower the cot on-which the paralytic was lying-down. ⁵ And Jesus, having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven”. ⁶ Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, ⁷ “Why is this One speaking in this manner? He is blaspheming. Who is able to forgive sins except One— God?” ⁸ And immediately Jesus, having known^[b] in His spirit that they were reasoning in this manner within themselves, says to them “Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts? ⁹ Which is easier— to say to the paralytic ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say ‘Arise, and pick-up your cot and walk’? ¹⁰ But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth”— He says to the paralytic, ¹¹ “I say to you, arise, pick up your cot and go to your house”. ¹² And he arose, and immediately having picked-up the cot, went out in front of everyone, so that everyone was astonished^[c] and glorifying God, saying that “We never saw anything like this”.

Jesus Calls Levi The Tax Collector And Eats With His Friends: I Came For Sinners

¹³ And He went out again beside the sea. And all the multitude^[d] was coming to Him. And He was teaching them. ¹⁴ And while passing on He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax-office^[e]. And He says to him “Be following Me!” And having stood-up, he followed Him. ¹⁵ And it comes about that He was reclining [to eat] in his^[f] house. And many tax-collectors and sinners were reclining-back-with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many, and they were following Him. ¹⁶ And the scribes of the Pharisees, having seen that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, were saying to His disciples “Why is it that^[g] He is eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷ And having heard, Jesus says to them that “The ones being strong have no need of a physician, but the ones being ill. I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinners”.

Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? The Bridegroom Is Here. New Wine Needs New Wineskins

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and the Pharisees^[h] were fasting. And they come and say to Him, “For what reason are the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fasting, but Your disciples are not fasting?” ¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, “The sons of the wedding-hall^[i] cannot be fasting while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot be fasting. ²⁰ But days will come when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, and then they will fast in that day. ²¹ No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise the fullness [of the patch] takes from it— the new from the old— and a worse tear^[j] takes place. ²² And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine is lost, and the wineskins. But one puts new wine into fresh^[k] wineskins”.

The Disciples Pluck Grain On The Sabbath. I Am Lord of The Sabbath

²³ And it came about that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way while plucking^[l] the heads [of grain]. ²⁴ And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what is not lawful?” ²⁵ And He says to them, “Did you never read [in 1 Sam 21:1-6] what David did when he had a need and was hungry, he and the ones with him— ²⁶ how he entered into the house of God in the time^[m] of Abiathar the high-priest and ate the Bread of Presentation^[n] which is not lawful for anyone to eat but the priests, and he gave it also to the ones being with him?” ²⁷ And He was saying to them, “The Sabbath was made^[o] for the sake of mankind, and not mankind for the sake of the Sabbath. ²⁸ So then^[p], the Son of Man is Lord even^[q] of the Sabbath”.

You Who Know More Truth And Judge Others By It Are Also Without Excuse

2 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what^[a] you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things! ² And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon^[b] the ones practicing such things.

Do You Think You Will Escape God’s Judgment When You Do The Same Things?

³ But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, ⁶ Who will render to each one according to his works— ⁷ to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life; ⁸ but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest^[c], there will be wrath and fury.

There Is No Respect of Persons With God Regarding Sin And Judgment

⁹ There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person^[d] committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹ For there is no respect-of-persons with God. ¹² For all who sinned without-Law will also perish without-Law, and all who sinned under^[e] the Law will be judged by the Law. ¹³ For not the hearers of law^[f] are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared-righteous.

For Gentiles Will Be Judged By Their Own Standards Insofar As They Agree With God’s

¹⁴ For whenever Gentiles, the ones not having the Law, are doing by nature the things of the Law, these ones not having the Law are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ who are demonstrating^[g] the work of the Law written in their hearts— their conscience bearing co-witness and their thoughts accusing or even defending between one another ¹⁶ on the day when God judges the hidden things of people according to my good-news, through Christ Jesus.

And Jews Will Be Judged By The Law They Rely Upon

¹⁷ But if you call-yourself a Jew, and rely upon the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things mattering^[h]— being instructed out of the Law— ¹⁹ and are confident as to yourself that you are a guide of blind ones, a light of the ones in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of children, one having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the Law, ²¹ then— the one teaching another, are you not teaching yourself ? The one proclaiming not to steal, do you steal? ²² The one saying not to commit-adultery, do you commit-adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob-temples?

Their Transgression of The Law Dishonors God

²³ You who are boasting in the Law are dishonoring God through transgression of the Law. ²⁴ For “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you”, just as it has been written [in Isa 52:5].

Circumcision Will Not Help Transgressors

²⁵ For circumcision profits if you practice the Law— but if you are a transgressor of the Law your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised one keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcised one by nature who is fulfilling the Law will judge you, the transgressor of the Law with the letter^[i] and circumcision! ²⁸ For the Jew in the visible thing is not a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the visible^[j] thing in the flesh circumcision, ²⁹ but the Jew in the hidden thing is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, by^[k] the Spirit not the letter— whose praise is not from people, but from God.