| 1 | And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] days, and it was heard that he is in the house, |
| 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. |
| 3 | And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four, |
| 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, |
| 5 | and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.` |
| 6 | And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts, |
| 7 | `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?` |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 10 | `And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) -- |
| 11 | I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;` |
| 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.` |
| 13 | And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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?` |
| 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.` |
| 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?` |
| 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; |
| 20 | but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days. |
| 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; |
| 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.` |
| 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, |
| 24 | and the Pharisees said to him, `Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?` |
| 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? |
| 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?` |
| 27 | And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath, |
| 28 | so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.` |
