Mark 2
1 And after some days, he again entered into Capernaum.
Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;
2 And it was heard that he was in the house. And so many gathered that there was no room left, not even at the door. And he spoke the word to them.
and so many people collected together, that after a while there was no room for them even around the door; and he began to tell them his message.
3 And they came to him, bringing a paralytic, who was being carried by four men.
Some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, who was being carried by four of them.
4 And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.
They were unable to get him near to Jesus, because of the crowd, so they removed the roof above Jesus, and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.
5 Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6 But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts:
But some of the teachers of the Law who were sitting there were debating in their minds,
7 “Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?”
8 At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they were debating with themselves in this way, said to them, “Why are you debating in your minds about this?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’
Which is easier? – to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’? Or to say ‘Get up, and take up your mat, and walk’?
10 But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic:
But so you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth” – here he said to the paralyzed man –
11 “I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house.”
“To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home.”
12 And immediately he got up, and lifting up his stretcher, he went away in the sight of them all, so that they all wondered. And they honored God, by saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”
The man got up, and immediately took up his mat, and went out before them all; at which they were amazed, and, as they praised God, they said, “We have never seen anything like this!”
13 And he departed again to the sea. And the entire crowd came to him, and he taught them.
Jesus went out again to the sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.
14 And as he was passing by, he saw Levi of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.
As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me.” Levi got up and followed him.
15 And it happened that, as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat at table together with Jesus and his disciples. For those who followed him were many.
Later on he was in his house having dinner, and a number of tax collectors and outcasts took their places at the table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.
16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
When the teachers of the Law belonging to the party of the Pharisees saw that he was eating in the company of such people, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with the tax collectors and outcasts?”
17 Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”
Hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.”
18 And the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, were fasting. And they arrived and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus, “Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?”
19 And Jesus said to them: “How can the sons of the wedding fast while the groom is still with them? During whatever time they have the groom with them, they are not able to fast.
Jesus answered, “Can the groom’s friends fast, while the groom is with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
20 But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they shall fast, in those days.
But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then – when that day comes.”
21 No one sews a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new addition pulls away from the old, and the tear becomes worse.
“No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if they do, the patch tears away from it – the new from the old – and a worse tear is made.
22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine will pour out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
And no one ever puts new wine into old wine-skins; if they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are lost. But new wine is put into fresh skins.”
23 And again, while the Lord was walking through the ripe grain on the Sabbath, his disciples, as they advanced, began to separate the ears of grains.
One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.
24 But the Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”
“Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?”
25 And he said to them: “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?
“Have you never read,” answered Jesus, “what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his companions –
26 How he went into the house of God, under the high priest Abiathar, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and how he gave it to those who were with him?”
how he went into the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?”
27 And he said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
Then Jesus added, “The Sabbath was made for people, and not people for the Sabbath;
28 And so, the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”
so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
