The Koine Bible

And entering again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

And many gathered so that there was no longer room, not even near the door, and he was speaking the word to them.

And they come bringing to him a paralytic being carried by four.

And not being able to bring him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and digging through, they lowered the bed on which the paralytic was lying.

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Child, your sins are forgiven.

Now there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts.

Why does this one speak like that? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins except God alone?

And immediately Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they were reasoning this way within themselves, said to them, Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts?

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up, take your mat, and walk?

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—he says to the paralytic—

I say to you, rise, take up your bed, and go to your house.

And he got up and immediately, taking up the bed, went out in front of everyone, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

And he went out again beside the sea; and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

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 got up and followed him.

And it happened that he was reclining in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, Is he eating with tax collectors and sinners?

And Jesus, having heard, says to them, It is not those who are healthy who have need of a physician, but those who are ill; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

And Jesus said to them, The sons of the wedding feast, while the bridegroom is with them, cannot fast; as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, and a worse tear results.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins. But new wine into new wineskins.

And it happened that he was passing through the grainfields on the sabbaths, and his disciples began to make their way, picking the ears of grain.

And the Pharisees said to him, Look at what they are doing on the Sabbaths, which is not lawful.

And he says to them, Have you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

How he entered the house of God during Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presence, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave it to those who were with him?

And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for the sake of the human, and not the human for the sake of the Sabbath.

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.