Mark 2:1-17

When  he entered Capernaum  again after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and he was speaking the word  to them. They came to him bringing a paralytic,  carried by four of them. Since they were not able to bring him to  Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. Seeing their faith,  Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins   are forgiven.”   But some of the scribes  were sitting there, questioning  in their hearts: “Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming!  Who can forgive  sins  but God alone? ”  Right away  Jesus perceived in his spirit  that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Which is easier:   to say to the paralytic,   ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’?   But so that you may know that the Son of Man   has authority   on earth to forgive sins”    #— #he told the paralytic — “I tell you: get up,   take your mat, and go home.” Immediately he got up, took the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded  and gave glory  to God,  saying, “We have never seen anything like this! ”  Jesus  went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching  them. Then, passing by, he saw Levi  the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office,  and he said to him, “Follow me,”   and he got up and followed  him. While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors  and sinners  were eating  with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him. When the scribes  who were Pharisees  , saw that he was eating  with sinners  and tax collectors,  they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat  with tax collectors and sinners? ” When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It is not those who are well who need   a doctor,   but those who are sick.   I didn’t come to call the righteous,   but sinners.”

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