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2:1  And when, after several days, Jesus had returned to Capernaum, it was reported that he was at home.
2:2  · Many people gathered so that there was no longer any room, not even · at the entrance; and he began speaking the word to them.
2:3  And some men came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
2:4  · When they were not able to carry him in because of the crowd, they broke through the roof above Jesus, and when they had dug out an opening, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
2:5  · When Jesus saw · · their faith, he said to the paralytic, “My son, your · sins are forgiven.”
2:6  Now some of the scribes were sitting there, · reasoning in · their hearts,
2:7  “Why does this man speak like that? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins except the One God?”
2:8  And Jesus, knowing immediately · in his spirit that they were reasoning in that way within themselves, said to them, “Why are you contemplating these things in · your hearts?
2:9  Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your · sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, · pick up · your mat, and walk’?
2:10  But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic,
2:11  “I say to you, get up, pick up · your mat, and go to · your home.”
2:12  And · immediately the man got up, picked up his mat, and went out in full view of them all, so they were all amazed and praised · God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
2:13  · Once again Jesus went out alongside the lake. · A large · crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.
2:14  · As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” So Levi got up and followed him.
2:15  And as he reclined at table in · Levi’s house, · many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and · his disciples, for there were many · who followed him.
2:16  And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with · sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is he eating with · tax collectors and sinners?”
2:17  · When Jesus heard · this he said to them, “Those who are in good health have no need of a doctor, but those who are physically ill. I have not come to call the pious, but sinners, to repentance.”
2:18  · The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. · Some people came and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, · but your disciples do not fast?”
2:19  And Jesus said to them, · “Do the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? No, as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they do not fast.
2:20  But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast in that · day.
2:21  “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, · the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.
2:22  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, · the wine will burst the skins and the wine will be wasted as well as the skins. But new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”
2:23  · It happened that on the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and · his disciples began to make their way along, plucking · heads of grain.
2:24  So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
2:25  · He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and became hungry, he and those who were with him?
2:26  How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, · which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?”
2:27  And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for · man, · not · man for the Sabbath.
2:28  So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”