Mark Chapter 2

1 After several days Jesus entered into Capernaum again, and people heard that he had come home. 2 Many people were gathered there, so there was no more space, not even at the door, and he spoke the Word to them. 3 Some men came to him bringing a paralytic, carried by four of them, 4 but they were not able to come near him because of the crowd. (So) they removed the roof where he was, and having broken it up, they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic man was laying. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, 

"Son, your sins are forgiven."

 6 Now there were also some Scribes sitting there, and they were reasoning in their hearts. 

7 "Why does this man speak like this. He Blasphemes. Who except God is able to forgive sins?"

8 Suddenly Jesus, having discerned in his spirit that they were thinking these things, said to them,

"Why do you think these things in your hearts? 9 which is easier, to say to the paralytic 'your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'get up, pick up your mat and walk?' 10 but in order that you may know that the Son of Man has power upon the earth to forgive sins," 

 he said to the paralytic, 

11 "To you I say, 'Get Up, pick up your mat and go home."  

12  and suddenly he got up, and taking his mat, he left in front of them all. Everyone was amazed and glorified God saying, 

"We've never seen anything like this."

13 Once again he went by the sea, and the whole crowd came to him, and he taught them. 14 and moving on, he saw Levi, Alphaeus' son, sitting at the tax booth, and said to him, 

"Follow me."

and getting up, he followed him. 15 And it just so happened, while dining in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were there reclining with Jesus and his disciples, because there were many who followed him, 16 that the Scribes, and the Pharisees, having seen him eat with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, 

"Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

17  Having heard this, Jesus said to them, 

"The healthy have no need for a doctor, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." 

18  Now the John's disciples, and those of the Pharisees, were fasting; and they came and said to him,

"Why do John's disciples, and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but yours do not fast?" 

19 And Jesus said to them, 

"How can the groomsmen fast while the groom is with them? They cannot, while he is with them. 20  But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then in that day, they will fast. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth onto an old outfit; because the new cloth will pull away the old, and a worse tear takes place. 22  just as no one puts new wine into old wineskins, because the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine will be destroyed along with the wineskins. But new wine goes into new wineskins."

23  And it so happened that passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his disciples started plucking heads of grain, 24 and the Pharisees said to him,  

"Now see here! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?" 

25 And he said to them, 

"Haven't you read what David did when he was desperate and hungry, he and those who were with him? 26 how he entered God's House, in (the days of) the high priest Abiathar, and ate the Bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful to eat, even for the priests; and he even gave some to those who were with him.

27 And he said to them,

"The Sabbath is for man, not man for the Sabbath."

28 So then, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.