Mark:2

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* 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 , not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd , they uncovered the roof where he was , and having dug [it ] up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay . * But Jesus , seeing their faith , says to the paralytic , Child , thy sins are forgiven [thee ]. * But certain of the scribes were there sitting , and reasoning in their hearts , * Why does this [man ] thus speak ? he blasphemes . Who is able to forgive sins except God alone ? * 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 has power on earth to forgive sins , he says to the paralytic , * To thee I say , Arise , take up thy couch and go to thine house . * And he rose up straightway , and , having taken up his couch , 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 , Why [is it ] that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners ? * And Jesus having heard [it ] says to them , They that are strong have not need of a physician , but those who are ill . I have not come to call righteous [men ], 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 bride-chamber 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 on the sabbath through the cornfields ; and his disciples began to walk on , plucking the ears . * And the Pharisees said to him , Behold , why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful ? * And he said to them , Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered , he and those with him , * how he entered into the house of God , in [the section of ] Abiathar [the ] high priest , and ate the shew-bread , which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat , and gave even to those that were with him ? * And he said to them , The sabbath was made on account of man , not man on account of the sabbath ; * so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also .

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