Mark 2
1 A few days later Jesus returned home to Capernaum, and news spread that he was there.
Well a few days later, He again entered Capernaum, and it was heard that He was at home.
2 So many people crowded inside the house that it was packed, even outside the door, as Jesus told them the message.
Without delay so many were gathered together that there was no more room, not even around the door, and He was speaking the Word to them.
3 Four men had brought a man who was paralyzed,
Then four men came, carrying a paralytic to Him.
4 but they could not get near Jesus because of the crowds. So they went up on the roof and took it apart. After they had made an opening above Jesus, they lowered down the mat with the paralyzed man lying on it.
And not being able to get near Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where He was; upon breaking through they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
5 When Jesus saw the trust these men had, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
So seeing their faith Jesus says to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
6 Some of the religious teachers sitting there thought to themselves,
Now some of the scribes were sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts:
7 “Why is he talking like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins? Only God can do that!”
“Why does this guy speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 Jesus knew right away what they were thinking. He said to them, “Why are you thinking like this?
Immediately Jesus perceived in His spirit what they were reasoning within themselves and said to them: “Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts?
9 What's easier: to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins have been forgiven’, or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!’?
10 But to convince you that the Son of man has the right to forgive sins,
But so that you may know that the Son of the Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins”—He says to the paralytic:
11 I say to you (the paralyzed man), ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.’”
“To you I say, get up, pick up your pallet and go to your house!”
12 He stood up, picked up his mat, and walked out in front of everyone there. They were all amazed, and praised God, saying “We've never ever seen anything like this!”
So forthwith he got up, picked up his pallet and went out in front of them all; so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
13 Jesus went out beside the sea once more and taught the crowds that came to him.
Then He went out again by the sea; and the whole crowd came to Him, and He began to teach them.
14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-collector's booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him. Levi got up and followed Jesus.
As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow me!” So he got up and followed Him.
15 That evening Jesus ate dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and “sinners” joined Jesus and his disciples for the meal, for there were many of these people that followed Jesus.
Now it happened, as He was reclining at the table in his house, that many tax collectors and sinners joined Jesus and His disciples at the table; for there were many and they followed Him.
16 When the religious leaders of the Pharisees saw Jesus eating with such people, they asked Jesus' disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
The scribes and the Pharisees, seeing Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, said to His disciples, “Why is it that He is eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners?”
17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It's not healthy people who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I haven't come to invite those who live right, but those who don't—the sinners.”
Upon hearing it Jesus said to them: “It is not the healthy who have need of a doctor, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some of them came to Jesus, and asked him, “Why is it that John's disciples and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't?”
Now John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?”
19 “Do wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?” Jesus asked them. “No. While the bridegroom's with them, they can't fast.
So Jesus said to them: “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom to themselves they cannot fast.
20 But the day is coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they'll fast.
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.
21 No one puts a patch that's not shrunk on old clothes. Otherwise the new piece will shrink away from the old, and make the tear worse.
“Further, no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the new tears away some of the old, and a worse hole results.
22 No one puts new wine in old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and both the wine and wineskins will be wasted. No. You put new wine in new wineskins.”
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine spills out and the skins will be ruined; rather, new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
23 One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through the grain fields, his disciples started picking heads of grain as they walked along.
Now it happened, on a Sabbath, that He was passing through some grain fields, and His disciples began to make a path, picking the heads of grain.
24 The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Look, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”
So the Pharisees said to Him, “Just look, why are they doing on a Sabbath that which is not permitted?”
25 “Haven't you ever read what David did when he and his men were hungry and in need?” Jesus asked them.
And He said to them: “Did you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him?
26 “He went into God's house when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the consecrated bread which no one except the priests are permitted to eat, and gave it to his men too.”
How he entered the house of God (making Abiathar high priest) and ate the consecrated bread, which only priests are permitted to eat, and shared it with those who were with him?”
27 “The Sabbath was made for your benefit, not for you to benefit the Sabbath,” he told them.
Then He said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
28 “So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Therefore the Son of the Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
