And he entered again into Capernaum after [several] days, and it was reported that he was at [the] house ;
and straightway many were gathered together so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.
And there come to him [men] bringing a paralytic borne by four.
And when they could not come near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was; and when they had dug it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.
When Jesus saw their faith, he says to the paralytic, Son, thy sins are forgiven [thee].
But certain of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
Why does this man thus speak? He blasphemes. Who can forgive sins but God only?
And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (he says to the sick of the palsy),
To thee I say, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go to thine house.
And immediately he arose, took up his couch, and went out before them all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus .
And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them.
And passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.
And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him.
And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with tax-gatherers and sinners?
And when Jesus heard it, he says to them, They that are strong have no need of the physician, but they that are ill. I have not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners.
And 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 thy disciples fast not?
And 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.
But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day .
No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.
And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.
And it came to pass that he went through the corn-fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples, as they went, began to pluck the ears of corn.
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath that which is not lawful?
And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and they that were with him?
how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar [the] high-priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful save for the priests to eat, and gave also to them that were with him?
And he says to them, The Sabbath was made on account of man, and not man on account of the Sabbath
so that the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath also.