Mark 2
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
2And when He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home. 2And amany were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them. 3aAnd they *came, bringing to Him a bparalytic, carried by four men. 4And being unable to bring him to 1Jesus because of the crowd, they aremoved the roof over where He was; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the mat where the bparalytic was lying. 5And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “Child, ayour sins are forgiven.” 6But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; awho can forgive sins 1but God alone?” 8Immediately Jesus, aware 1in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts? 9“Which is easier, to say to the aparalytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick 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, 11“I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go to your home.” 12And he got up and immediately picked up the mat and went out before everyone, so that they were all amazed and awere glorifying God, saying, “bWe have never seen anything like this.”
13And He went out again by the seashore; and athe entire crowd was coming to Him, and He was teaching them.
Levi and Sinners Called
14aAnd as He passed by, He saw 1,bLevi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax office, and He *said to him, “cFollow Me!” And he stood up and followed Him.
15And it *1happened that as He was reclining at the table in his house, many tax collectors and 2sinners 3were reclining with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many of them, and they were following Him. 16And when athe scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they were saying to His disciples, “bHe is eating and drinking with tax collectors and 1sinners!” 17And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “aThose who are healthy do not have need for a physician, but only those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
18aAnd John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they *came and *said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 19And Jesus said to them, “Can 1the attendants of the bridegroom fast when the bridegroom is with them? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20“But the adays will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
21“No one sews 1a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise 2that patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. 22“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Lord of the Sabbath
23aAnd it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while bpicking the heads of grain. 24And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, awhy are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; 26how he entered the house of God around the time of aAbiathar the high priest, and ate the 1consecrated bread, which bis not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” 27And Jesus was saying to them, “aThe Sabbath 1was made 2for man, and bnot man 3for the Sabbath. 28“Consequently the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”