2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] days, and it was heard that he is in the house,
2:2 and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.
2:3 And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,
2:4 and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken [it] up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,
2:5 and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.`
2:6 And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts,
2:7 `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?`
2:8 And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?
2:9 which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?
2:10 `And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) --
2:11 I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;`
2:12 and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- `Never thus did we see.`
2:13 And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them,
2:14 and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, `Be following me,` and he, having risen, did follow him.
2:15 And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
2:16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?`
2:17 And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.`
2:18 And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?`
2:19 And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;
2:20 but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days.
2:21 `And no one a patch of undressed cloth doth sew on an old garment, and if not -- the new filling it up doth take from the old and the rent doth become worse;
2:22 and no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if not -- the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine into new skins is to be put.`
2:23 And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,
2:24 and the Pharisees said to him, `Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?`
2:25 And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?
2:26 how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,`) and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?`
2:27 And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,
2:28 so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.`
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