1 ¶ Having returned to Capernaum after several days; it was rumored that he was in the house.

2 And so many quickly gathered together, that there was no room to receive them, no, not even outside the door: and he preached the word to them.

3 And some came, bringing a paralytic to him, who was carried by four.

4 And when they could not get near to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him: and when they had dug through, they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven.

6 But there were certain scribes sitting there, who reasoned in their hearts,

7 Why is this man speaking blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God alone?

8 And immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this is what they were thinking, and he said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

9 Which is easier to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, take up your bed, and walk?

10 But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins, (he said to the paralytic,)

11 I say to you, Arise, pick up your pallet, and go to your house.

12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and walked out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like that.

13 ¶ And he again went out along the sea; and the crowds kept coming to him, and he taught them.

14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the place of tax collection, and said to him, Follow me. And he got up and followed him.

15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they kept following him.

16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, Why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?

17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, Those who are healthy do not need a doctor, but those who are sick do: I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

18 ¶ Now both the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting: and some came to him and asked, How is it that the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

19 And Jesus said to them, Can the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? They cannot fast as long as they have the bridegroom with them.

20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

21 No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise the new piece that filled in the hole pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

22 And no one puts new wine into old leather bottles: otherwise the new wine would burst the bottles, the wine would be lost, and the bottles destroyed: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

23 And it came to pass, that he went through the grainfields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they walked, to pluck the ears of grain.

24 And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?

25 And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he himself, and those who were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is only lawful for priests to eat, and also gave some to those who were with him?

27 And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

28 Therefore the Son of man is also Lord of the sabbath.