Mark 2
1 After some days He entered Capernaum again, and it soon became known that He was at home;
After many days, he returned to Capernaum; and when it was known that he was in the house,
2 and such numbers of people came together that there was no longer room for them even round the door. He was speaking His Message to them,
such a multitude flocked thither, that there was no room for them, not even near the door, and he taught them the word.
3 when there came a party of people bringing a paralytic--four men carrying him.
A paralytic was then brought, carried by four men,
4 Finding themselves unable, however, to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they untiled the roof just over His head, and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
who, not being able to come nigh him for the crowd, uncovered the place where Jesus was; and, through the opening, let down the conch, on which the paralytic lay.
5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are pardoned."
Jesus perceiving their faith, said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven you.
6 Now there were some of the Scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts.
But certain scribes who were present, reasoned thus within themselves:
7 "Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"
How does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God?
8 At once perceiving by His spirit that they were reasoning within themselves, Jesus asked them, "Why do you thus argue in your minds?
Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that they made these reflections, said to them, Why do you reason thus within yourselves?
9 Which is easier?--to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your mat, and walk?'
Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, with effect, Arise, take up your couch and walk?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power upon the earth to forgive sins, rise, (he said to the paralytic, )
11 "To you I say, 'Rise, take up your mat and go home.'"
I command you, take up your couch, and go home.
12 The man rose, and immediately under the eyes of all took up his mat and went out, so that they were all filled with astonishment, gave the glory to God, and said, "We never saw anything like this."
Immediately he rose, took up the couch, and walked out before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like this.
13 Again He went out to the shore of the Lake, and the whole multitude kept coming to Him, and He taught them.
Again, he went out toward the sea, and all the multitude repaired to him, and he taught them.
14 And as He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the Toll Office, and said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed Him.
Passing along, he saw Levi, son of Alpheus, sitting at the toll office, and said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
15 When He was sitting at table in Levi's house, a large number of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners were at table with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many such who habitually followed Him.
Now when Jesus was eating in this man's house, several publicans and sinners placed themselves at table with him and his disciples: for many of these people followed him.
16 But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His disciples, "He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and sinners!"
The Scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eat with publicans and sinners, said to his disciples, Wherefore does he eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
17 Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."
Jesus, hearing this, replied, The whole need not a physician, but the sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
18 (Now John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were keeping a fast.) And they came and asked Him, "How is it that John's disciples and those of the Pharisees are fasting, and yours are not?"
The disciples of John, and those of the Pharisees, accustomed to fasting, came to him and said, John's disciples, and those of the Pharisees, fast; why do not your disciples fast?
19 "Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.
Jesus answered, Do the bridemen fast while the bridegroom is with them? While the bridegroom is with them they do not fast.
20 But a time will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be take from them; and in those days they will fast.
21 No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.
No person sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment; otherwise the new patch tears the old cloth, and makes a worse rent.
22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine needs fresh skins!"
No person puts new wine into old leather bottles; else the new wine bursts the bottle; and thus both the wine is split, and the bottles are rendered useless; but new wine must be put into new bottles.
23 One Sabbath He was walking through the wheatfields when His disciples began to pluck the ears of wheat as they went.
Once, when he was going through the corn on the Sabbath, his disciples began to pluck the ears of corn as they went.
24 So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on the Sabbath is unlawful?"
The Pharisees said to him, Why do they that which on the Sabbath, it is unlawful to do?
25 "Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:
He answered, Did you never read what David and his attendants did, in a strait, when they were hungry,
26 how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"
how he entered the tabernacle of God, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and eat the loaves of the presence, which none but the priests could lawfully eat, and gave of them also to his attendants?
27 And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath;
He added, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
28 so that the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
Therefore the Son of Man is master even of the Sabbath.
