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When He had come
back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home. |
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And many were
gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door;
and He was speaking the word to them.
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And they came,
bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. |
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Being unable to get
to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they
had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was
lying. |
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And Jesus seeing
their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your
sins are forgiven.”
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But some of the
scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
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“Why does this man
speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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Immediately Jesus,
aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves,
said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these
things in your hearts? |
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“Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your
sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’? |
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“But so that you may know that the Son of Man
has authority on earth to forgive sins”
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He said to the paralytic, |
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“I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and
go home.” |
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And he got up and
immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so
that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never
seen anything like this.” |
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And He went out
again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was
teaching them. |
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As He passed by, He
saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him,
“Follow Me!” And he got up and followed
Him.
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And it happened that
He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and
sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of
them, and they were following Him.
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When the scribes of
the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors,
they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax
collectors and sinners?” |
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And hearing this,
Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are
healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call
the righteous, but sinners.” |
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John's disciples and
the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s
disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not
fast?” |
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And Jesus said to
them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the
attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have
the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. |
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“But the days will come when the bridegroom is
taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
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“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old
garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a
worse tear results.
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“No one puts new wine into old wineskins;
otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins
as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” |
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And it happened that
He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples
began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. |
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The Pharisees were
saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
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And He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did when he was
in need and he and his companions became hungry; |
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how he entered the house of God in the time of
Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful
for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were
with him?” |
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Jesus said to them,
“The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for
the Sabbath.
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“So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” |
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