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¹He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

²Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Yeshua Salvation, seeing their trusting faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

³Behold, some of the Torah-Teachers said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

⁴Yeshua Salvation, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

⁵For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’

⁶But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

⁷He arose and departed to his house.

⁸But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

⁹As Yeshua Salvation passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew Gift of Yah sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

¹⁰As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Yeshua Salvation and his disciples.

¹¹When the Pharisees Separated saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

¹²When Yeshua Salvation heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

¹³But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire eleos ·merciful compassion in action·, not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the upright, but sinners to teshuvah ·complete repentance·.”

¹⁴Then John Yah is gracious’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees Separated fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

¹⁵Yeshua Salvation said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹⁶No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

¹⁷Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

¹⁸While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

¹⁹Yeshua Salvation got up and followed him, as did his disciples.

²⁰Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the tzitzit ·fringes· on his garment;

²¹for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”

²²But Yeshua Salvation, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your trusting faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

²³When Yeshua Salvation came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

²⁴he said to them, “Make room, because the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

²⁵But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

²⁶The report of this went out into all that land.

²⁷As Yeshua Salvation passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David Beloved!”

²⁸When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Yeshua Salvation said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

²⁹Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your trusting faith be it done to you.”

³⁰Their eyes were opened. Yeshua Salvation strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

³¹But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

³²As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.

³³When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel God prevails!”

³⁴But the Pharisees Separated said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

³⁵Yeshua Salvation went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

³⁶But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

³⁷Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

³⁸Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”