Mark 2
1When he entered Capernaum again after some days, people heard that he was at home. 2So many gathered that there was no longer room, even at the door, and he spoke the word to them. 3People came bringing him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4Unable to bring him near because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof above Jesus. After digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man lay. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6Some of the scribes were sitting there, reasoning in their hearts, 7“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God alone?” 8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning this way within themselves, said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts? 9Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’? 10But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralyzed man—11“I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go to your house.” 12He got up, immediately picked up the mat, and went out in front of everyone. They were all beside themselves and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
13He went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them. 14As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth and said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.
15Jesus was reclining at a meal in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 17Jesus heard and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are ill do. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
18John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19Jesus said to them, “Can the bridegroom's companions fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
21“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear results. 22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost along with the skins. But new wine goes into fresh wineskins.”
23On the Sabbath he was passing through grainfields, and his disciples began making their way along, plucking heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him? 26How he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the Presence, which only the priests are permitted to eat, and also gave some to those who were with him?” 27And he said to them, “The Sabbath came into being for humanity, and not humanity for the Sabbath. 28So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”