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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!” Jesus Calls Levi (Matthew) |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.) |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum? ” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.” A Discussion about Fasting |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Once when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t your disciples fast like John’s disciples and the Pharisees do?” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. They can’t fast while the groom is with them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20 But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21 “Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.” A Discussion about the Sabbath |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26 He went into the house of God (during the days when Abiathar was high priest) and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to his companions.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!” |
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