1 Alguns dias depois voltou Jesus a Cafarnaum, e soube-se que ele estava em casa.

2 Muitos afluíram ali, a ponto de já não haver lugar nem junto à porta; e ele lhes dirigia a palavra.

3 Trouxeram-lhe um paralítico, carregado por quatro homens,

4 e não podendo apresentar-lho por causa da multidão, desladrilharam o eirado por cima de Jesus e, feita uma abertura, arrearam o leito em que jazia o paralítico.

5 Vendo Jesus a fé que eles tinham, disse ao paralítico: Filho, perdoados são os teus pecados.

6 Estavam, porém, ali sentados alguns escribas, que discorriam nos seus corações:

7 Por que fala assim este homem? ele blasfema; quem pode perdoar pecados senão só um, que é Deus?

8 Mas Jesus, percebendo logo em seu espírito que eles assim discorriam dentro de si, perguntou-lhes: Por que discorreis sobre estas coisas em vossos corações?

9 Qual é mais fácil, dizer ao paralítico: Perdoados são os teus pecados, ou dizer: Levanta-te, toma o teu leito e anda?

10 Para que saibais que o Filho do homem tem sobre a terra autoridade para perdoar pecados, disse ao paralítico:

11 A ti te digo: Levanta-te, toma o teu leito e vai para tua casa.

12 Ele se levantou, e no mesmo instante tomando o seu leito, retirou-se à vista de todos; de modo que todos ficaram atônitos, e glorificaram a Deus, dizendo: Nunca vimos coisa semelhante.

13 Saiu outra vez para a beira-mar; toda a multidão vinha ter com ele, e ele os ensinava.

14 Quando ia passando, viu a Levi, filho de Alfeu, sentado na coletoria, e disse-lhe: Segue-me. Ele se levantou e o seguiu.

15 Estando Jesus à mesa na casa de Levi, sentaram-se também com ele e com seus discípulos muitos publicanos e pecadores; pois havia muitos que o seguiam.

16 Vendo os escribas dos fariseus que ele comia com os pecadores e publicanos, perguntaram aos discípulos dele: Como é que ele come com os publicanos e pecadores?

17 Jesus, ouvindo isto, respondeu-lhes: Os sãos não precisam de médico, mas sim os enfermos; eu não vim chamar os justos, mas os pecadores.

18 (Ora os discípulos de João e os fariseus estavam jejuando.) Eles vieram perguntar-lhe: Por que jejuam os discípulos de João e os dos fariseus, mas os teus não jejuam?

19 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Podem, porventura, jejuar os convidados para o casamento, enquanto o noivo está com eles? Durante o tempo que têm consigo o noivo, não podem jejuar.

20 Dias, porém, virão, em que lhes será tirado o noivo, nesses dias jejuarão.

21 Ninguém cose remendo de pano novo em vestido velho; de outra forma o remendo novo tira parte do velho, e torna-se maior a rotura.

22 Ninguém põe vinho novo em odres velhos; de outra forma o vinho fará arrebentar os odres, e perder-se-á o vinho, e também os odres. Pelo contrário vinho novo é posto em odres novos.

23 Caminhando Jesus pelas searas em um sábado, os seus discípulos, ao passarem, começaram a colher espigas.

24 Os fariseus lhe perguntaram: Olha, por que fazem eles no sábado o que não é lícito?

25 Ele lhes respondeu: Nunca lestes o que fez Davi, quando se viu em necessidade e teve fome, ele e seus companheiros?

26 Como entrou na casa de Deus, sendo Abiatar sumo sacerdote, e comeu os pães da proposição, os quais só aos sacerdotes era lícito comer, e ainda deu aos seus companheiros?

27 Acrescentou: O sábado foi feito por causa do homem, e não o homem por causa do sábado;

28 assim o Filho do homem é senhor até do sábado.

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.