As they entered Capernaum again, some reported that Jesus was in a house. Many came together so neither the house nor the door could contain them. He spoke the word to them.
People carried a palsied man of four years. On account of the crowd they couldn’t get near Jesus. They took off the roof, dug through and let down the bed on which the man lay. Seeing their faith He said to the palsied man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does He say this? He blasphemes, who can forgive sins but one, God?” Jesus, perceiving what they were reasoning in themselves, said to them, “Why reason these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the palsied man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and take up your bed and go?’ The Son of man has authority to forgive sins.”
He said to the palsied man, ”Rise, take up your bed and go to your house.” He rose and took up his bed and went out before all.
They all were amazed, and glorified God, “We have never seen anything like this.”
Jesus went again to the sea, and the crowd came to Him, and He taught them. Passing by, He saw Levi sitting at the customshouse, and said to him, “Follow me.” He rose and followed Him.
Jesus was sitting at the table in Levi’s house, and many sinners and tax collectors sat at the table with Him and His disciples. The scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that He ate with sinners and tax collectors, said to His disciples, “Why does He eat and drink with sinners and tax collectors?” Hearing it Jesus said to them, “They that are in health have no need of a physician, but they that are sick do. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.”
The disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. They came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t?” Jesus said to them, “Can the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast, but the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
“No one sews a piece of unfilled cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, that which fills up takes from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
“No one puts new wine into old bottles. Otherwise, the wine bursts the bottles, and the wine and bottles are lost.”
He was going on the Sabbath through the fields of grain. His disciples began to go on the way pulling the ears of grain. The Pharisees said, “See, why are they doing this on the Sabbath that is not lawful?” Jesus said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him? How he entered into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the loaves of the presence, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to those also that were with him? The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. So, then the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.”