Healing of the Paralytic

1. And again he entered into Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that he was in the house.
2. And immediately many were gathered, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door. And he was preaching the word to them.
3. And they came to him, bringing a paralytic carried by four men.
4. And not being able to come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
5. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6. And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7. “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8. And immediately Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
9. Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed, and walk’?
10. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”,  he said to the paralytic,
11. “I say to you, rise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
12. And he rose and immediately took up the bed and went out in the sight of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this.”

Calling of Levi (Matthew)

13. And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.
14. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
15. And it happened that he was reclining in the house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they followed him.
16. And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing him eat with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17. And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Question About Fasting

18. And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
19. And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
21. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.
22. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and also the skins. But new wine is for new wineskins.”

Lord of the Sabbath

23. And it happened that he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
24. And the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
25. And he said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him?
26. How he entered the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and also gave it to those with him?”
27. And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
28. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”