Mark 2:10-28

10But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”--He said to the paralyzed man, 11“I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet, and go home.” 12And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and 1were glorifying God, saying, “2We have never seen anything like this!”

13And He went out again by the seashore; and 3all the 4people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them. 145As He passed by, He saw 67Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “8Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

15And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and 9sinners were 10dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him. 16When 11the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the 12sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “13Why is He eating with tax collectors and 14sinners?” 17And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “15It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

1816John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 19And Jesus said to them, “While the groom is with them, 17the attendants of the groom cannot fast, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast. 20But the 18days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast, on that day.

21“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, 19the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. 22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

2320And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while 21picking the heads of grain. 24The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, 22why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; 26how he entered the house of God in the 23time of 24Abiathar the high priest, and ate the 25consecrated bread, which 26is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” 27Jesus said to them, “27The Sabbath 28was made 29for man, and 30not man 31for the Sabbath. 28So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”