Mark 2

¹And He having entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that He is in the house.

²And many were gathered together, so as to have no more space, not even at the door. And He was speaking the word to them.

³And they come, bringing to Him a paralytic, being carried by four.

⁴And not being able to bring him to Him through the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was, and having dug it out, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

⁵And Jesus, having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”

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

⁷“Why does this man speak thus? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive sins except One—God?”

⁸And immediately Jesus, having known in His spirit that they are reasoning thus in 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 so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on the earth...” He says to the paralytic,

¹¹“I say to you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”

¹²And he arose, and immediately, having taken up the mat, he went out before all, so as for all to be amazed and to glorify God, saying, “Never thus did we see!”

¹³And He went out again beside the sea. And all the crowd was coming to Him, and He taught them.

¹⁴And passing by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and He says to him, “Follow Me.” And having risen up, he followed Him.

¹⁵And it came to pass, in His reclining in his house, that many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they were following Him.

¹⁶And the scribes of the Pharisees, having seen that He eats with the sinners and tax collectors, were saying to His disciples, “Why does He eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”

¹⁷And Jesus, having heard, says to them, “Those being strong have no need of a physician, rather those being ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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, “Are the sons of the bridechamber able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast.

²⁰But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

²¹No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. and if otherwise, the filling up pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear happens.

²²And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. and if otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine is destroyed—and the wineskins. But new wine is put into new wineskins.”

²³And it came to pass that He is passing along through the grainfields on the Sabbaths, and His disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain.

²⁴And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Behold, why do they do on the Sabbaths what is not lawful?”

²⁵And He says to them, “Did 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 time of Abiathar the high priest, and he ate the loaves of the presentation, which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests—and he gave also to those being with him?”

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

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