2:5 - When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, your sins be forgiven you.
Tertullian On Baptism
and, "Thy sins shall be remitted thee,"[131]
2:7 - Why does this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
Tertullian On Modesty
Who, moreover, was able to forgive sins? This is His alone prerogative: for "who remitteth sins but God alone? "[267]
2:8 - And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason all of you these things in your hearts?
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV
of our heretic. Now, that the very Lord Himself of all might, the Word and Spirit of the Father,[671]Tertullian On Baptism
But if repentance is a thing human, its baptism must necessarily be of the same nature: else, if it had been celestial, it would have given both the Holy Spirit and remission of sins. But none either pardons sins or freely grants the Spirit save God only.[102]Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments
but just the Word? And what is it that is begotten of Him, but just the Spirit,[276]
2:9 - Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?
Tertullian On Modesty
For thus it was that the Lord Jesus Christ showed His power: "Why think ye evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Thy sins are remitted thee; or, Rise and walk? Therefore, that ye may know the Son of man to have the power upon earth of remitting sins, I say to thee, paralytic, Rise, and walk."[295]
2:10 - But that all of you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he says to the sick of the palsy,)
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna
and it has seemed good to Thee, by means of our Lord and Creator, to fashion us again unto immortality; and Thou hast graciously given unto us a return to Paradise by means of Him who separated us from the joys of Paradise; and by means of Him who hath power to forgive sins Thou hast[68]
2:11 - I say unto you, Arise, and take up your bed, and go your way into yours house.
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
" But the good Instructor, the Wisdom, the Word of the Father, who made man, cares for the whole nature of His creature; the all-sufficient Physician of humanity, the Saviour, heals both body and soul. "Rise up," He said to the paralytic; "take the bed on which thou liest, and go away home; "[7]Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
as in fact was done to that person who, yet being ignorant, had gathered a bundle of sticks on the Sabbath-day; whereas Jesus cured a cripple on the Sabbath, and ordered him then also to take up his bed.[427]
2:14 - And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
Tertullian On Idolatry
while Matthew is roused up from the toll-booth;[89]
2:15 - And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at food in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Tertullian On Modesty
name,-a (name) of such as put up the pathways of the very sky, and earth, and sea, for sale. Moreover, when (the writer) adjoins "sinners" to "publicans,"[101]
2:17 - When Jesus heard it, he says unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Epistle of Barnabas
But when He chose His own apostles who where to preach His Gospel, [He did so from among those] who were sinners above all sin, that He might show He came "not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."[41]Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection
And if it is the flesh that is the sinner, then on its account alone did the Saviour come, as He says, "I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."[17]
2:18 - And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?
Tertullian On Fasting
At all events, in the Gospel they think that those days were definitely appointed for fasts in which "the Bridegroom was taken away; "[5]
2:19 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
And the Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave His testimony to what we affirm, when He said with His heavenly voice, "Can ye make the children of the bride-chamber fast so long as the bridegroom is with them? "[477]
2:20 - But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V
Do ye who are able fast the day of the preparation and the Sabbath-day entirely, tasting nothing till the cock-crowing of the night; but if any one is not able to join them both together, at least let him observe the Sabbath-day; for the Lord says somewhere, speaking of Himself: "When the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, in those days shall they fast."[147]
2:21 - No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
Tertullian On Prayer
-has determined for us, the disciples of the New Testament, a new form of prayer; for in this particular also it was needful that new wine should be laid up in new skins, and a new breadth be sewn to a new garment.[3]