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* After a few days he came back to Capernaum . People soon heard that he was at home . * Many came together right away . The house was full . There was no more room , not even outside near the door . Jesus was telling them Gods message . * Four men brought a sick man to Jesus . The man could not move his arms or legs . * But they could not get in the house where Jesus was , because there were so many people . So they went up on the roof . They made a hole in the roof . Then they let down the mat with the sick man on it . * Jesus saw that they believed he would be healed . So he said to the sick man , Son , the wrong things you have done are forgiven . * Some of the scribes were sitting there . * They were thinking , Why does this man say such wrong things against God ? He is not giving God respect ! Who can forgive the wrong things people do ? No one but God can do that . * Jesus understood in his spirit what the scribes were thinking . He said right away , Why do you think these wrong things in your hearts ? * Which is easier , to say to the sick man , "The wrong things you have done are forgiven ," or to say , "Get up . Take up your mat and walk "? * I want you to know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive the wrong things people do . So he said to the sick man , * I tell you , get up ! Take up your mat and go home . * Right away the man stood up in front of them . He took up his mat and went home . They were all very much surprised , and they praised God . They said , We have never seen anything like this before . * Jesus went out again by the seaside . Many people came to him . So he taught them . * As he went along , he saw Levi , the son of Alphaeus . He was sitting at the place where people come to pay taxes . Jesus said to him , Come with me . Levi stood up and went with him . * Jesus was eating in Levis house . Many tax collectors and bad people also came . They sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples . There were many who went with him . * The scribes and Pharisees saw that Jesus ate with these people . They said to the disciples , Why does he eat and drink with bad people ? * Jesus heard it . He said to them , People who are well do not need a doctor . But sick people need him . I did not come to call good people . I came to call bad people to stop doing wrong things . * Johns disciples and the Pharisees disciples were fasting &lt ;FI &gt ;not eating food for a time &lt ;Fi &gt ;. Some people came to Jesus and said , The disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast . Why do your disciples not do the same ? * Jesus answered them , The people at a wedding cannot be sad while the man who is married is with them . * But the time will come when he will be taken away from them . Then they will fast . * No person sews a piece of new cloth on an old coat . If he does , the new cloth will tear the old coat . Then the hole is bigger than it was before . * No person puts new wine into old wine skins . If he does , the new wine will break the skins . Then the wine will be lost and the skins will be spoiled . New wine is put into new skins . * Jesus was walking through the grainfields on the Sabbath day . His disciples began to pick some of the seed (to eat ) as they went along . * The Pharisees said to Jesus , Why do your disciples do what is not right on the Sabbath day ? * Jesus answered them , Have you not read what David did ? He and his men who were with him were hungry . * He went into Gods house when Abiathar was the high priest . Some bread was there for God . It was not right for them to eat it . Only the priests have the right to eat it . But David took the bread and ate it . He also gave some of it to the people who were with him . * Jesus went on to say , The Sabbath was made for the good of man . Man was not made for the Sabbath . * So the Son of Man rules over the Sabbath day .

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