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Chapter 2 "Jesus Goes Out"
1 After they left the synagogue, they went directly to the house of Simon and Andrew, along with James and John.
2 Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her. He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.
3 When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons. In fact, the whole city gathered at the door.
4 He healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. However, he wouldn't allow the demons to speak because they knew who he was.
5 In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there. Simon and his companions searched frantically for him.
6 When they found him, they told him, "Everyone's looking for you."
7 "Let's go to the neighboring town," he replied, "so I can preach there too, because that's why I came." So he went throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
8 Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and told him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
9 Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and told him, "I do want to. Be made clean!" Instantly the leprosy left him, and he was clean.
10 Then Jesus sternly warned him and encouraged him to go at once. He told the man, "Be sure that you don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."
11 But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places.
12 Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.
13 Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum, and it was reported that he was at home. Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in the front of the door.
14 Jesus was speaking his message to them when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.
15 Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.
16 When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
17 Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves, "Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
18 At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them. "Which is easier to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or 'Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."
19 Then he told the paralyzed man, "I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!" So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them.
20 As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
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