Jesus

And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, `I will; be thou cleansed;'

and he having spoken, immediately the leprosy went away from him, and he was cleansed.

And having sternly charged him, immediately he put him forth,

And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.

And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days, and it was heard that he is in the house,

and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.

And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

`Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one--God?'

And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

`And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins--(he saith to the paralytic) --

I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;'

And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them,

and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why--that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.'

And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

and the Pharisees said to him, `Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'

And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.'