Mark 2:15

Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

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

Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;