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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or 'Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins…" Then he told the paralyzed man, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd kept coming to him, and he kept teaching them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Later, he was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners were also eating with Jesus and his disciples, because there were many who were following him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Jesus replied, "The wedding guests can't fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they can't fast. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear is made. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?" |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?" |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." |
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