1 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home. 2 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. 5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— 11 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."

12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

13 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 14 As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

15 He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. 16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?"

19 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. 22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

23 He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

25 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? 26 How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

27 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

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.