aid to them, Why do
you reason in your minds? [2:9]in what respect is it easier to say to
the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, than to say, Arise, take up
your bed and walk? [2:10]But that you may know that the Son of man has
power to forgive sins on the earth, he said to the paralytic, [2:11]I
tell you, arise, take your bed and go to your house. [2:12]And he was
raised up and immediately taking his bed he went away before all; so
that all were astonished, and glorified God, saying, We never saw the
like.

3 [2:13]And he went out again by the lake, and all the multitude came
to him, and he taught them. [2:14]And passing by he saw Levi, the son
of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me;
and he arose and followed him. [2:15]And he was reclining in his house,
and many publicans and sinners also reclined with Jesus and his
disciples, for many also followed him. [2:16]And the scribes and
Pharisees seeing him eating with sinners and publicans, said to his
disciples, Why does he eat and drink with sinners and publicans?
[2:17]And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a
physician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

4 [2:18]And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fasted. And
they came and said to him, Why do the disciples of John and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples fast not?
[2:19]And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast as
long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the
bridegroom with them, they cannot fast, [2:20]but days will come when
the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast at
that time. [2:21]No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old
garment; if he does the new piece takes away its fullness from the old,
and the rent is made worse. [2:22]And no one puts new wine into old
bottles; if he does the wine breaks the bottles, and the wine and the
bottles are destroyed.

5 [2:23]And he was passing on the sabbath through the grain fields, and
his disciples began to make their way, picking heads of grain.
[2:24]And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath,
which it is not lawful to do. [2:25]And he said to them, Have you never
read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry? both he and
those with him? [2:26]How he entered into the house of God under
Abiathar the chief priest, and eat the show bread, which it was not
lawful to eat, excep