1 En n 'n paar dae het Hy weer in Kap,rnam gekom, en die mense het gehoor dat Hy in die huis was.

2 En dadelik het baie saamgekom, sodat daar selfs by die deur nie meer plek was nie; en Hy was besig om aan hulle die woord te verkondig.

3 En daar kom mense na Hom met 'n verlamde man wat deur vier gedra word.

4 En toe hulle vanweë die skare nie naby Hom kon kom nie, maak hulle die dak oop waar Hy was, en nadat hulle dit oopgebreek het, het hulle die bed waar die verlamde op lê, laat afsak.

5 En toe Jesus hulle geloof sien, sê Hy vir die verlamde: Seun, jou sondes is jou vergewe!

6 En sommige van die skrifgeleerdes het daar gesit en in hulle harte geredeneer:

7 Waarom praat hierdie man so godslasterlik? Wie kan sondes vergewe behalwe Een, naamlik God?

8 En Jesus het dadelik in sy gees geweet dat hulle by hulleself so redeneer, en Hy sê vir hulle: Wat redeneer julle oor hierdie dinge in jul harte?

9 Wat is makliker, om vir die verlamde te sê: Die sondes is jou vergewe! of om te sê: Staan op en neem jou bed op en loop?

10 Maar dat julle kan weet dat die Seun van die mens mag het om op die aarde sondes te vergewe -- sê Hy vir die verlamde man:

11 Ek sê vir jou: Staan op, neem jou bed op en gaan na jou huis toe.

12 En dadelik staan hy op en neem sy bed op en gaan voor die oë van almal uit, sodat almal verbaas was en God verheerlik en sê: So iets het ons nog nooit gesien nie!

13 En Hy het weer uitgegaan langs die see, en die hele skare het na Hom gekom, en Hy het hulle geleer.

14 En toe Hy verbygaan, sien Hy Levi, die seun van Alf,s, by die tolhuis sit en sê vir hom: Volg My. En hy het opgestaan en Hom gevolg.

15 En terwyl Hy in sy huis aan tafel was, kom daar baie tollenaars en sondaars saam met Jesus en sy dissipels aan tafel; want daar was baie, en hulle het Hom gevolg.

16 En toe die skrifgeleerdes en die Fariseërs Hom saam met die tollenaars en sondaars sien eet, sê hulle vir sy dissipels: Wat is dit dat Hy saam met die tollenaars en sondaars eet en drink?

17 En toe Jesus dit hoor, sê Hy vir hulle: Die wat gesond is, het die geneesheer nie nodig nie, maar die wat ongesteld is. Ek het nie gekom om regverdiges te roep nie, maar sondaars tot bekering.

18 En die dissipels van Johannes en die van die Fariseërs was besig om te vas. Toe kom hulle en sê vir Hom: Waarom vas die dissipels van Johannes en die van die Fariseërs, maar u dissipels vas nie?

19 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Kan die bruilofsgaste dan vas terwyl die bruidegom by hulle is? So lank as hulle die bruidegom by hulle het, kan hulle nie vas nie.

20 Maar daar sal dae kom wanneer die bruidegom van hulle weggeneem word, en dan sal hulle vas, in daardie dae.

21 En niemand werk 'n nuwe stuk lap op 'n ou kleed nie; anders skeur sy nuwe aangelapte stuk van die oue af, en daar kom 'n erger skeur.

22 En niemand gooi nuwe wyn in ou leersakke nie; anders sal die nuwe wyn die sakke laat bars, en die wyn loop uit en die sakke vergaan. Maar nuwe wyn moet in nuwe sakke gegooi word.

23 En terwyl Hy op die sabbat deur die gesaaides loop, het sy dissipels al gaande are begin pluk.

24 Toe sê die Fariseërs vir Hom: Kyk, waarom doen hulle op die sabbat wat nie geoorloof is nie?

25 En Hy sê vir hulle: Het julle nooit gelees wat Dawid gedoen het nie -- toe hy in die nood was, en hy en die wat by hom was, honger gehad het --

26 hoe hy in die huis van God gegaan het in die tyd van Abjatar, die hoëpriester, en die toonbrode geëet het wat vir niemand behalwe die priesters geoorloof is om te eet nie; en ook aan die wat saam met hom was, gegee het?

27 En Hy sê vir hulle: Die sabbat is gemaak vir die mens, nie die mens vir die sabbat nie.

28 Daarom is die Seun van die mens Here ook van die sabbat.

1 And when he came into Capernaum again after some days, the news went about that he was in the house.

2 And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.

3 And four men came to him with one on a bed who had no power of moving.

4 And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.

5 And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.

6 But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,

7 Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?

8 And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

9 Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go?

10 But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)

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

12 And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

13 And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.

14 And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.

15 And it came about that he was seated at meat in his house, and a number of tax-farmers and sinners were at table with Jesus and his disciples: for there were a great number of them, and they came after him.

16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was taking food with the tax-farmers and sinners, said to his disciples, Why does he take food and drink with such men?

17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.

18 And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

19 And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

20 But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

21 No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

22 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

23 And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.

24 And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

25 And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

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

28 So that the Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.