mārkaḥ 2
1 tadanantaraṁ yīśai katipayadināni vilambya punaḥ kapharnāhūmnagaraṁ praviṣṭe sa gṛha āsta iti kiṁvadantyā tatkṣaṇaṁ tatsamīpaṁ bahavo lokā āgatya samupatasthuḥ,
Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;
2 tasmād gṛhamadhye sarvveṣāṁ kṛte sthānaṁ nābhavad dvārasya caturdikṣvapi nābhavat, tatkāle sa tān prati kathāṁ pracārayāñcakre|
and so many people collected together, that after a while there was no room for them even round the door; and he began to tell them his Message.
3 tataḥ paraṁ lokāścaturbhi rmānavairekaṁ pakṣāghātinaṁ vāhayitvā tatsamīpam āninyuḥ|
And some people came, bringing to him a paralysed man, who was being carried by four bearers.
4 kintu janānāṁ bahutvāt taṁ yīśoḥ sammukhamānetuṁ na śaknuvanto yasmin sthāne sa āste taduparigṛhapṛṣṭhaṁ khanitvā chidraṁ kṛtvā tena mārgeṇa saśayyaṁ pakṣāghātinam avarohayāmāsuḥ|
Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing below which Jesus was; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralysed man was lying.
5 tato yīśusteṣāṁ viśvāsaṁ dṛṣṭvā taṁ pakṣāghātinaṁ babhāṣe he vatsa tava pāpānāṁ mārjanaṁ bhavatu|
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man: “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6 tadā kiyanto'dhyāpakāstatropaviśanto manobhi rvitarkayāñcakruḥ, eṣa manuṣya etādṛśīmīśvaranindāṁ kathāṁ kutaḥ kathayati?
But some of the Teachers of the Law who were sitting there were debating in their minds:
7 īśvaraṁ vinā pāpāni mārṣṭuṁ kasya sāmarthyam āste?
“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?”
8 itthaṁ te vitarkayanti yīśustatkṣaṇaṁ manasā tad budvvā tānavadad yūyamantaḥkaraṇaiḥ kuta etāni vitarkayatha?
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 tadanantaraṁ yīśustatsthānāt punaḥ samudrataṭaṁ yayau; lokanivahe tatsamīpamāgate sa tān samupadideśa|
Which is easier? — to say to the paralysed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’? or to say ‘Get up, and take up your mat, and walk about’?
10 kintu pṛthivyāṁ pāpāni mārṣṭuṁ manuṣyaputrasya sāmarthyamasti, etad yuṣmān jñāpayituṁ (sa tasmai pakṣāghātine kathayāmāsa)
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth” — here he said to the paralysed man —
11 uttiṣṭha tava śayyāṁ gṛhītvā svagṛhaṁ yāhi, ahaṁ tvāmidam ājñāpayāmi|
“To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home.”
12 tataḥ sa tatkṣaṇam utthāya śayyāṁ gṛhītvā sarvveṣāṁ sākṣāt jagāma; sarvve vismitā etādṛśaṁ karmma vayam kadāpi nāpaśyāma, imāṁ kathāṁ kathayitveśvaraṁ dhanyamabruvan|
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 tadanantaraṁ yīśustatsthānāt punaḥ samudrataṭaṁ yayau; lokanivahe tatsamīpamāgate sa tān samupadideśa|
Jesus went out again to the Sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.
14 atha gacchan karasañcayagṛha upaviṣṭam ālphīyaputraṁ leviṁ dṛṣṭvā tamāhūya kathitavān matpaścāt tvāmāmaccha tataḥ sa utthāya tatpaścād yayau|
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 anantaraṁ yīśau tasya gṛhe bhoktum upaviṣṭe bahavaḥ karamañcāyinaḥ pāpinaśca tena tacchiṣyaiśca sahopaviviśuḥ, yato bahavastatpaścādājagmuḥ|
And later on he was in his house at table, and a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.
16 tadā sa karamañcāyibhiḥ pāpibhiśca saha khādati, tad dṛṣṭvādhyāpakāḥ phirūśinaśca tasya śiṣyānūcuḥ karamañcāyibhiḥ pāpibhiśca sahāyaṁ kuto bhuṁkte pivati ca?
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: “He is eating in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts!”
17 tadvākyaṁ śrutvā yīśuḥ pratyuvāca, arogilokānāṁ cikitsakena prayojanaṁ nāsti, kintu rogiṇāmeva; ahaṁ dhārmmikānāhvātuṁ nāgataḥ kintu mano vyāvarttayituṁ pāpina eva|
Hearing this, Jesus said: “It is not those who are in health that need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.”
18 tataḥ paraṁ yohanaḥ phirūśināñcopavāsācāriśiṣyā yīśoḥ samīpam āgatya kathayāmāsuḥ, yohanaḥ phirūśināñca śiṣyā upavasanti kintu bhavataḥ śiṣyā nopavasanti kiṁ kāraṇamasya?
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, 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 tadā yīśustān babhāṣe yāvat kālaṁ sakhibhiḥ saha kanyāyā varastiṣṭhati tāvatkālaṁ te kimupavastuṁ śaknuvanti? yāvatkālaṁ varastaiḥ saha tiṣṭhati tāvatkālaṁ ta upavastuṁ na śaknuvanti|
Jesus answered: “Can the bridegroom’s friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20 yasmin kāle tebhyaḥ sakāśād varo neṣyate sa kāla āgacchati, tasmin kāle te janā upavatsyanti|
But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then — when that day comes.
21 kopi janaḥ purātanavastre nūtanavastraṁ na sīvyati, yato nūtanavastreṇa saha sevane kṛte jīrṇaṁ vastraṁ chidyate tasmāt puna rmahat chidraṁ jāyate|
“No man ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it — the new from the old — and a worse rent is made.
22 kopi janaḥ purātanakutūṣu nūtanaṁ drākṣārasaṁ na sthāpayati, yato nūtanadrākṣārasasya tejasā tāḥ kutvo vidīryyante tato drākṣārasaśca patati kutvaśca naśyanti, ataeva nūtanadrākṣāraso nūtanakutūṣu sthāpanīyaḥ|
And no man ever puts new wine into old wine-skins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are lost. But new wine is put into fresh skins.”
23 tadanantaraṁ yīśu ryadā viśrāmavāre śasyakṣetreṇa gacchati tadā tasya śiṣyā gacchantaḥ śasyamañjarīśchettuṁ pravṛttāḥ|
One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.
24 ataḥ phirūśino yīśave kathayāmāsuḥ paśyatu viśrāmavāsare yat karmma na karttavyaṁ tad ime kutaḥ kurvvanti?
“Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?”
25 tadā sa tebhyo'kathayat dāyūd tatsaṁṅginaśca bhakṣyābhāvāt kṣudhitāḥ santo yat karmma kṛtavantastat kiṁ yuṣmābhi rna paṭhitam?
“Have you never read,” answered Jesus, “what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions —
26 abiyātharnāmake mahāyājakatāṁ kurvvati sa kathamīśvarasyāvāsaṁ praviśya ye darśanīyapūpā yājakān vinānyasya kasyāpi na bhakṣyāstāneva bubhuje saṅgilokebhyo'pi dadau|
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 so'paramapi jagāda, viśrāmavāro manuṣyārthameva nirūpito'sti kintu manuṣyo viśrāmavārārthaṁ naiva|
Then Jesus added: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;
28 manuṣyaputro viśrāmavārasyāpi prabhurāste|
so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
