Mark 2

ABU^{(i) 1} AND again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was heard that he is in the house. ² And straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them. ³ And they come to him, bringing one that was palsied, borne by four. ⁴ And not being able to come near him, on account of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was; and having broken it up, they let down the bed whereon the palsied man lay. ⁵ And Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the palsied man: Child, thy sins are forgiven. ⁶ But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts: ⁷ Why does this man speak thus? He blasphemes. Who can forgive sins but one, God? ⁸ And Jesus, immediately perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them: Why reason ye these things in your hearts? ⁹ Which is easier, to say to the palsied man, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? ¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he says to the palsied man,) ¹¹ I say to thee, arise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house. ¹² And he arose, and immediately taking up the bed went forth before all; so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying: We never saw it thus. ¹³ And he went forth again by the sea-side; and all the multitude came to him, and he taught them. ¹⁴ And passing along, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the place of receiving custom, and said to him: Follow me. And rising up he followed him. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, as he reclined at table in his house, that many publicans and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they followed him. ¹⁶ And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with the sinners and publicans, said to his disciples: How is it that he eats and drinks with the sinners and the publicans? ¹⁷ And Jesus, hearing it, says to them: They who are well need not a physician, but they who are sick. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners. ¹⁸ 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 Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? ¹⁹ And Jesus said to them: Can the sons of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can not fast. ²⁰ But days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in that day. ²¹ No one sews a piece of unfulled cloth upon an old garment; else the new filling up of the old takes from it, and a worse rent is made. ²² And no one puts new wine into old skins; else the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is destroyed, and the skins. ²³ And it came to pass, that he went through the grain-fields on the sabbath; and his disciples began to go forward, plucking the ears of grain. ²⁴ And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath that which is not lawful? ²⁵ And he said to them: Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and hungered, himself and they who were with him; ²⁶ how he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show-bread, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also 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 So that the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.