The Son of Man Forgives and Heals
1When Mt 9:1-8; Lk 5:17-26 He entered Capernaum Lk 10:15 again after some days, it was reported that He was at home.
2So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message Mk 4:14; Jn 18:32 to them.
3Then they came to Him bringing a paralytic, Mt 4:24; 8:6; 9:2,6; Mk 2:3-10 carried by four men.
4Since they were not able to bring him to Other mss read able to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
5Seeing their faith, Mt 8:10; Ac 3:16; Rm 1:8; 1Co 2:5; Gl 2:16; 1Tm 1:2; Heb 4:2 Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins Jn 15:22 are forgiven.” Mt 9:2,5; Lk 5:20,23; 7:48
6But some of the scribes Mt 2:4 were sitting there, thinking Mk 9:33 to themselves: Or thinking in their hearts
7“Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Ex 22:28; Mk 3:29; Rv 13:6 Who can forgive Ps 25:11; Mt 9:2 sins Jn 15:22 but God alone? ” Ex 34:6-7; Is 43:25; 44:2
8Right away Mk 10:52 Jesus understood in His spirit Lk 5:22; 16:15; Jn 2:25 that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Or minds
9Which is easier: Lk 16:17; 18:25 to say to the paralytic, Mk 2:3 ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’? Mt 11:5
10But so you may know that the Son of Man Ps 8:4; Lk 5:24; Ac 7:56 has authority Mt 28:18; Mk 1:22 on earth to forgive sins,” Jn 15:22 He told the paralytic,
12Immediately he got up, picked up the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded Ac 10:45 and gave glory Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 to God, Lk 2:14 saying, “We have never seen anything like this! ” Mt 9:33
The Call of Matthew
13Then Mt 9:9-13; Lk 5:27-32 Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to Him, and He taught Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 them.
14Then, moving on, He saw Levi Lk 5:27,29 the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, Lk 5:27 and He said to him, “Follow Me! ” Lk 5:27 So he got up and followed Lk 5:11; Jn 8:12 Him.
Dining with Sinners
15While He was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors Lk 3:12; 18:13 and sinners Mt 9:10; 1Tm 1:15 were also guests Lit reclining (at the table); at important meals the custom was to recline on a mat at a low table and lean on the left elbow. Mt 14:9; Rm 12:13 with Jesus and His disciples, because there were many who were following Him.
16When the scribes Mt 2:4 of the Pharisees Other mss read scribes and Pharisees Mk 7:3 saw that He was eating Mt 11:18 with sinners 1Tm 1:15 and tax collectors, Lk 3:12 they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat Other mss add and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”
17When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need Mt 6:8 a doctor, Col 4:14 but the sick Lk 5:31 do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, Mt 13:17; Rm 1:17 but sinners.” Lk 5:32
A Question about Fasting
18Now Mt 9:14-17; Lk 5:33-39 John’s Mk 1:4 disciples Jn 3:25 and the Pharisees Other mss read the disciples of John and of the Pharisees Mk 7:3 were fasting. Lk 18:12; Ac 13:2 People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast? ”
19Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests Lit The sons of the bridal chamber cannot fast while the groom Jn 2:9 is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
20But the time Lit the days will come Mk 13:24 when the groom is taken away from them, Lk 17:22; Jn 16:16-20 and then they will fast Lk 18:12 in that day.
21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, Lk 19:36 and a worse tear is made.
22And no one puts new wine Lk 5:37 into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst Jn 6:27 the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. Other mss read the wine spills out and the skins will be ruined But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
Lord of the Sabbath
23On Mt 12:1-8; Lk 6:1-5 the Sabbath He was going through the grainfields, and His disciples Mk 10:10 began to make their way picking some heads of grain.
24The Pharisees Mk 7:3 said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful Lk 6:2 on the Sabbath? ”
25He said to them, “Have you never read what David Lk 1:27 and those who were with him did when he was in need Ac 2:45 and hungry Rv 7:16 —
26how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar 1Sm 21:1-6 the high priest Lv 16:32 and ate the sacred bread Ex 25:30 — which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests Ac 4:1 — and also gave some to his companions? ”
27Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for Or because of man and not man for Or because of the Sabbath. Col 2:16
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