02:01 .. when he had come back to Capernaum several days afterward .. it was heard that he was at home 02:02 .. and many were gathered together .. so that there was no longer room .. not even near the door .. and he was speaking the word to them 02:03 .. and they came .. bringing to him a paralytic .. carried by four men 02:04 .. being unable to get to him because of the crowd .. they removed the roof above him .. and when they had dug an opening .. .......... they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying 02:05 .. and Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic . . . son .. your sins are forgiven 02:06 .. but some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts 02:07 .. why does this man speak that way .. he is blaspheming .. who can forgive sins but God alone 02:08 .. Immediately Jesus .. aware in his spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves .. said to them . . . .......... why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts 02:09 .. which is easier .. to say to the paralytic .. your sins are forgiven .. or to say .. get up .. and pick up your pallet and walk 02:10 .. but so that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins .. he said to the paralytic 02:11 .. I say to you . . . get up .. pick up your pallet and go home 02:12 .. and he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone .. .......... so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God .. saying . . . we have never seen anything like this
..................Levi (Matthew) called
02:13 .. and he went out again by the seashore .. and all the people were coming to him .. and he was teaching them
02:14 .. as he passed by .. he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth .. and he said to him . . . follow me .. and he got up and followed him 02:15 .. and it happened that he was reclining at the table in his house .. and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples .. .......... for there were many of them .. and they were following him 02:16 .. when the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors .. they said to his disciples . . . .......... why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners 02:17 .. and hearing this .. Jesus said to them . . . It is not those who are healthy who need a physician .. but those who are sick .. .......... I did not come to call the righteous .. but sinners
02:18 .. John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting .. and they came and said to him . . . why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast .. .......... but your disciples do not fast 02:19 .. and Jesus said to them . . . while the bridegroom is with them .. the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast .. can they . . . .......... so long as they have the bridegroom with them .. they cannot fast 02:20 .. but the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them .. and then they will fast in that day 02:21 .. no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment .. otherwise the patch pulls away from it .. the new from the old .. .......... and a worse tear results 02:22 .. no one puts new wine into old wineskins .. otherwise the wine will burst the skins .. and the wine is lost and the skins as well .. .......... but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins
..................question of the Sabbath
02:23 .. and it happened that he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath .. .......... and his disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain 02:24 .. the Pharisees were saying to him . . . look .. why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath 02:25 .. and he said to them . . . have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry 02:26 .. how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest .. and ate the consecrated bread .. .......... which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests .. and he also gave it to those who were with him 02:27 .. Jesus said to them . . . the Sabbath was made for man .. and not man for the Sabbath 02:28 .. so the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath
Jesus Christ was sent to a sinful world for the healing and saving of such as will acknowledge their need of salvation and put their trust in him .. he has authority to forgive sin .. which strikes at the root of diseases and either cures or alters their property .. true faith in him will overcome all obstacles and bring deliverance . . . . v 7 (Cf John 10:33) .. Jesus was logically either a blasphemer or “God manifest in the flesh” .. the miracle he performed immediately proved that it was not he who was the blasphemer .. but his accusers