1And after some days, he again entered into Capernaum.

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Mark 7:24, John 4:47, Mark 7:24, John 4:47, Luke 5:18

2And it was heard that he was in the house. And so many gathered that there was no room left, not even at the door. And he spoke the word to them.

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Mark 1:45, Mark 2:13, Mark 1:45, Mark 2:13, Acts 16:6

3And they came to him, bringing a paralytic, who was being carried by four men.

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Luke 5:18, Luke 5:26, Luke 5:18, Luke 5:26, Matthew 9:1

4And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.

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Luke 5:19, Luke 5:19, Deuteronomy 22:8, Deuteronomy 22:8

5Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

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Matthew 9:2, Matthew 9:2, James 5:15, James 5:15, Mark 2:9

6But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts:

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Luke 5:21, Luke 5:22, Luke 5:21, Luke 5:22, Mark 8:17

7“Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

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Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 43:25, Micah 7:18, Daniel 9:9, Luke 5:21

8At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

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Ezekiel 38:10, John 2:24, John 2:25, Psalms 139:2, Acts 8:22

9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’

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Luke 5:22, Luke 5:25, Luke 5:22, Luke 5:25, Matthew 9:5

10But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic:

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Daniel 7:13, Daniel 7:14, Daniel 7:13, Daniel 7:14, Matthew 9:6

11“I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house.”

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Mark 1:41, Mark 1:41, John 6:63, John 5:8, John 5:10

12And immediately he got up, and lifting up his stretcher, he went away in the sight of them all, so that they all wondered. And they honored God, by saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

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Matthew 9:33, Matthew 9:33, Matthew 9:8, Matthew 9:8, Luke 7:16

13And he departed again to the sea. And the entire crowd came to him, and he taught them.

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Mark 4:1, Proverbs 1:20, Proverbs 1:22, Mark 4:1, Proverbs 1:20

14And as he was passing by, he saw Levi of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.

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Luke 5:27, Luke 5:32, Luke 5:27, Luke 5:32, Luke 6:15

15And it happened that, as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat at table together with Jesus and his disciples. For those who followed him were many.

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Luke 15:1, Luke 15:1, Matthew 9:10, Matthew 9:11, Luke 5:29

16And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

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Luke 19:10, Luke 18:11, Luke 19:10, Luke 18:11, Acts 23:9

17Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

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Matthew 9:12, Matthew 9:13, Matthew 9:12, Matthew 9:13, Luke 15:7

18And the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, were fasting. And they arrived and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

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Luke 18:12, Matthew 6:18, Matthew 9:14, Matthew 9:17, Luke 18:12

19And Jesus said to them: “How can the sons of the wedding fast while the groom is still with them? During whatever time they have the groom with them, they are not able to fast.

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Matthew 25:1, Matthew 25:10, Matthew 25:1, Matthew 25:10, Genesis 29:22

20But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they shall fast, in those days.

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Luke 17:22, Luke 17:22, Revelation 19:7, Revelation 21:9, Revelation 19:7

21No one sews a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new addition pulls away from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

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Matthew 9:16, Matthew 9:16, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Isaiah 57:16

22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine will pour out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

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Matthew 9:17, Matthew 9:17, Psalms 119:83, Psalms 119:83, Psalms 119:80

23And again, while the Lord was walking through the ripe grain on the Sabbath, his disciples, as they advanced, began to separate the ears of grains.

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Matthew 12:1, Matthew 12:8, Matthew 12:1, Matthew 12:8, Deuteronomy 23:24

24But the Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”

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Exodus 20:10, Exodus 20:10, Hebrews 12:3, Matthew 12:2, Hebrews 12:3

25And he said to them: “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?

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1 Samuel 21:3, 1 Samuel 21:6, 1 Samuel 21:3, 1 Samuel 21:6, Luke 10:26

26How he went into the house of God, under the high priest Abiathar, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and how he gave it to those who were with him?”

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2 Samuel 8:17, 2 Samuel 8:17, 1 Chronicles 24:6, 1 Chronicles 24:6, Leviticus 24:5

27And he said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

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Colossians 2:16, Colossians 2:16, Luke 6:9, Luke 6:9, Deuteronomy 5:14

28And so, the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”

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Matthew 12:8, Matthew 12:8, Revelation 1:10, Revelation 1:10, John 9:14