He heals a paralyzed man and forgives his sin
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📚✭And he got into a boat, and crossed over and came to his own town. 2 📚✭And just then they brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a cot. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, take courage! Your sins are forgiven you”.3 📚✭And now some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming”.
4 📚✭And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? 5 📚✭For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’, or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’ 6 📚But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”, he then said to the paralytic, “Get up. Pick up your cot and go to your house”.
7 And he got up and left for his house. 8 📚But when the crowds saw this, they were amazed and glorified God, who had given such authority to men✭.
The King calls Matthew to be a disciple
9 📚✭And as Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And he said to him, “Follow me”. And he got up and followed him.
10 📚And now it happened, as Jesus was sitting at the table in the house, that many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 📚And when the Pharisees✭ saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 📚✭But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, “The ones who need a physician are not those who are well, but those who are sick. 13 📚✭But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”.
The King speaks of Himself and of John the Baptist
14 📚Then the disciples of John✭ came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
15 📚And Jesus said to them, “Can the sons of the bridechamber✭ mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast. 16 📚✭No man puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, and the tear will become worse. 17 📚And men do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wineskins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved”.
The King raises Jairus' daughter from the dead, and heals a woman with an issue of blood
18 📚✭While he was speaking these things to them, suddenly a certain ruler came and worshipped him, saying, “Just now my daughter has died, but come and put your hand on her, and she will live”. 19 📚And Jesus got up and followed him, and so did his disciples.
20 📚✭And, suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 📚For she said to herself, “If I can just touch his cloak, I will get well”.
22 📚✭But Jesus turned around, and when he saw her, he said, “Daughter, take courage.✭ Your faith has made you well”. And the woman became well from that time.
23 📚✭And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players and the people making a commotion, 24 📚he said to them, “Go away, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping”.✭ And they laughed at him. 25 📚✭But when the people had been put out, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. 26 📚And the news of this spread throughout that whole region.
The King gives sight to blind men
27 📚And when Jesus left there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, “Son of David✭, have mercy on us”.
28 📚✭And when he went into the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord”.
29 📚✭Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you”. 30 📚✭And their eyes were opened. And Jesus gave them a strict order, saying, “See that no one finds out”. 31 📚✭But when they left they spread the news about him throughout that whole country.
32 📚✭As they went out, suddenly, they brought to him a man unable to speak and demon-possessed. 33 📚And when the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. And the crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this was ever seen✭ in Israel”.
34 📚✭But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons through the prince of the demons”.
35 📚✭And Jesus went around all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 📚✭But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were feeble and dejected, like sheep which have no shepherd. 37 📚✭Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. 38 📚✭Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest”.