1 Alguns dias depois, Jesus entrou novamente em Cafarnaum e souberam que ele estava em casa.

2 Reuniu-se uma tal multidão, que não podiam encontrar lugar nem mesmo junto à porta. E ele os instruía.

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

4 Como não pudessem apresentar-lho por causa da multidão, descobriram o teto por cima do lugar onde Jesus se achava e, por uma abertura, desceram o leito em que jazia o paralítico.

5 Jesus, vendo-lhes a fé, disse ao paralítico: "Filho, perdoados te são os pecados."

6 Ora, estavam ali sentados alguns escribas, que diziam uns aos outros:

7 "Como pode este homem falar assim? Ele blasfema. Quem pode perdoar pecados senão Deus?"

8 Mas Jesus, penetrando logo com seu espírito tios seus íntimos pensamentos, disse-lhes: "Por que pensais isto nos vossos corações?

9 Que é mais fácil dizer ao paralítico: Os pecados te são perdoados, ou dizer: Levanta-te, toma o teu leito e anda?

10 Ora, para que conheçais o poder concedido ao Filho dó homem sobre a terra {disse ao paralítico},

11 eu te ordeno: levanta-te, toma o teu leito e vai para casa."

12 No mesmo instante, ele se levantou e, tomando o. leito, foi-se embora à vista de todos. A, multidão inteira encheu-se de profunda admiração e puseram-se a louvar a Deus, dizendo: "Nunca vimos coisa semelhante."

13 Jesus saiu de novo para perto do mar e toda a multidão foi ter com ele, e ele os ensinava.

14 Quando ia passando, viu Levi, filho de Alfeu, sentado no posto da arrecadação e disse-lhe: "Segue-me." E Levi, levantando-se, seguiu-o.

15 Em seguida, pôs-se à mesa na sua casa e muitos cobradores de impostos e pecadores tomaram lugar com ele e seus discípulos; com efeito, eram numerosos os que o seguiam.

16 Os escribas, do partido dos fariseus,. vendo-o comer com as pessoas de má vida e publicamos, diziam aos seus discípulos: "Ele come com os publicamos e com gente de má vida? "

17 Ouvindo-os, Jesus replicou: "Os sãos não precisam de médico, mas os enfermos; não vim chamar os justos, mas os pecadores."

18 Ora, os discípulos de João e os fariseus jejuavam. Por isso, foram-lhe perguntar: "Por que jejuam os discípulos de João e os dos fariseus, mas os teus discípulos não jejuam?"

19 Jesus respondeu-lhes: "Podem porventura jejuar os convidados das núpcias, enquanto está com eles o esposo? Enquanto têm consigo o esposo, não lhes é -possível jejuar.

20 Dias virão, porém, em que o esposo lhes será tirado, e então jejuarão.

21 "Ninguém prega retalho de pano novo em roupa velha; do contrário, o remendo arranca novo pedaço da veste usada e torna-se pior o rasgão.

22 E ninguém põe vinho novo em odres velhos; se o fizer, o vinho os arrebentará e perder-se-á juntamente com os odres mas para vinho novo, odres novos."

23 Num dia de sábado, o Senhor caminhava pelos campos e seus discípulos, andando, começaram a colher espigas.

24 Os fariseus observaram-lhe: "Vede! Por que fazem eles no sábado o que não é permitido?" Jesus respondeu-lhes:

25 "Nunca lestes o que fez Davi, quando se achou em necessidade e teve fome, ele e os seus companheiros?

26 Ele entrou na casa de Deus, sendo Abiatar príncipe dos sacerdotes, e comeu os pães da proposição, dos quais só aos sacerdotes era permitido comer, e os deu aos seus companheiros."

27 E dizia-lhes: "O sábado foi feito para o homem, e não o homem para o sábado;

28 e, para dizer tudo, o Filho do homem é senhor também 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.