Mark 2
2
The Son of Man Forgives and Heals
1When # 2:1–12 Mt 9:1–8; Lk 5:17–26 he entered Capernaum # 2:1 Lk 10:15 again after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and he was speaking the word # 2:2 Mk 4:14; Jn 18:32 to them. 3They came to him bringing a paralytic, # 2:3 Mt 4:24; 8:6; 9:2,6; Mk 2:3–10 carried by four of them. 4Since they were not able to bring him to # 2:4 Other mss read able to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. 5Seeing their faith, # 2:5 Mt 8:10; Ac 3:16; Rm 1:8; 1Co 2:5; Gl 2:16; 1Tm 1:2; Heb 4:2 Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins # 2:5 Jn 15:22 are forgiven.” # 2:5 Mt 9:2,5; Lk 5:20,23; 7:48
6But some of the scribes # 2:6 Mt 2:4 were sitting there, questioning # 2:6 Mk 9:33 in their hearts: 7“Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming! # 2:7 Ex 22:28; Mk 3:29; Rv 13:6 Who can forgive # 2:7 Ps 25:11; Mt 9:2 sins # 2:7 Jn 15:22 but God alone? ” # 2:7 Ex 34:6–7; Is 43:25; 44:2
8Right away # 2:8 Mk 10:52 Jesus perceived in his spirit # 2:8 Lk 5:22; 16:15; Jn 2:25 that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 9Which is easier: # 2:9 Lk 16:17; 18:25 to say to the paralytic, # 2:9 Mk 2:3 ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’? # 2:9 Mt 11:5 10But so that you may know that the Son of Man # 2:10 Ps 8:4; Lk 5:24; Ac 7:56 has authority # 2:10 Mt 28:18; Mk 1:22 on earth to forgive sins” # 2:10 Jn 15:22 — he told the paralytic — 11“I tell you: get up, # 2:11 Mk 5:41 take your mat, and go home.”
12Immediately he got up, took the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded # 2:12 Ac 10:45 and gave glory # 2:12 Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 to God, # 2:12 Lk 2:14 saying, “We have never seen anything like this! ” # 2:12 Mt 9:33
The Call of Levi
13Jesus # 2:13–17 Mt 9:9–13; Lk 5:27–32 went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching # 2:13 Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 them. 14Then, passing by, he saw Levi # 2:14 Lk 5:27,29 the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, # 2:14 Lk 5:27 and he said to him, “Follow me,” # 2:14 Lk 5:27 and he got up and followed # 2:14 Lk 5:11; Jn 8:12 him.
15While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors # 2:15 Lk 3:12; 18:13 and sinners # 2:15 Mt 9:10; 1Tm 1:15 were eating # 2:15 Lit reclining together with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him. 16When the scribes # 2:16 Mt 2:4 who were Pharisees # 2:16 Other mss read scribes and Pharisees,# 2:16 Mk 7:3 saw that he was eating # 2:16 Mt 11:18 with sinners # 2:16 1Tm 1:15 and tax collectors, # 2:16 Lk 3:12 they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat # 2:16 Other mss add and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”
17When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It is not those who are well who need # 2:17 Mt 6:8 a doctor, # 2:17 Col 4:14 but those who are sick. # 2:17 Lk 5:31 I didn’t come to call the righteous, # 2:17 Mt 13:17; Rm 1:17 but sinners.” # 2:17 Lk 5:32
A Question about Fasting
18Now # 2:18–22 Mt 9:14–17; Lk 5:33–39 John’s # 2:18 Mk 1:4 disciples # 2:18 Jn 3:25 and the Pharisees # 2:18 Other mss read The disciples of John and of the Pharisees,# 2:18 Mk 7:3 were fasting. # 2:18 Lk 18:12; Ac 13:2 People came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast? ”
19Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom # 2:19 Jn 2:9 is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast. 20But the time # 2:20 Or the days will come # 2:20 Mk 13:24 when the groom will be taken away from them, # 2:20 Lk 17:22; Jn 16:16–20 and then they will fast # 2:20 Lk 18:12 on that day. 21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, # 2:21 Lk 19:36 and a worse tear is made. 22And no one puts new wine # 2:22 Lk 5:37 into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst # 2:22 Jn 6:27 the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins.”
Lord of the Sabbath
23On # 2:23–28 Mt 12:1–8; Lk 6:1–5 the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples # 2:23 Mk 10:10 began to make their way, picking some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees # 2:24 Mk 7:3 said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful # 2:24 Lk 6:2 on the Sabbath? ”
25He said to them, “Have you never read what David # 2:25 Lk 1:27 and those who were with him did when he was in need # 2:25 Ac 2:45 and hungry # 2:25 Rv 7:16 — 26how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar # 2:26 1Sm 21:1–6 the high priest # 2:26 Lv 16:32 and ate the bread of the Presence # 2:26 Ex 25:30 — which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests # 2:26 Ac 4:1 — and also gave some to his companions? ” 27Then he told them, “The Sabbath was made for # 2:27 Or because of man and not man for the Sabbath. # 2:27 Col 2:16 28So then, the Son of Man # 2:28 Mk 2:10 is Lord # 2:28 Rm 7:25; 1Co 8:6; Col 3:22 even of the Sabbath.” # 2:28 Lk 6:5
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Mark 2
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Some men carried their sick friend to Jesus
1Some time later, Jesus went back to the town called Capernium. The people heard that Jesus was at a house there, 2so they all went to see him. Soon the house was too full and there was a big mob outside too.
3Jesus was inside the house, teaching the people God’s story. Then 4 men brought a crippled man to that house. He couldn’t walk so they carried him on a swag. They wanted to get that man close to Jesus, so that Jesus could make him better. 4But those men found a lot of people blocking the house. So they carried the sick man up on to the flat roof of the house and made a hole in it. Then they picked up the sick man on his swag and put him down through the hole into the house where Jesus was.
5Jesus saw them do that, and so he knew that they really trusted him. Then Jesus said to the crippled man, “You know all the bad things you did? I say you are not guilty of those things, and God will not punish you.”
6But some of the Jewish law teachers didn’t like Jesus saying that. Those law teachers were thinking, 7“He can’t say that. Only God can talk like that. This man is talking like he is God. He can’t talk like that. He is shaming God.”
8-9Straight away, Jesus knew what the Jewish law teachers were thinking, so he said to them, “You are thinking the wrong way. I might say to this man, ‘You did bad things, but I say you are not guilty of them.’ Or I might say to him, ‘Get up, pick up your swag and go home.’ I can do both of those things. 10I will show you that God made me the boss over both of those things, so I can say that people are not guilty, and God will not punish them. I’m God’s special man from heaven, and I have the power to say those things, and I have the power to do those things.”
Then Jesus looked at the crippled man and said, 11“Come on, get up, pick up your swag and go home.”
12Straight away, that man got up, and he picked up his swag in front of all the people, and he walked out of the house and went home. Everybody there saw him do it, and they were really surprised. They started talking about it. They praised God, telling him that he is really good. They said, “We’ve never seen anything like this before.”
13After that, Jesus left the house and walked along next to the lake. The people from the town kept coming to him, so he kept on teaching them.
Jesus told a tax man to join his followers
14At that time, the Roman people were the bosses over all that country, and they got some Jewish people to take tax money from the other Jewish people and give it to the Roman government. One of those tax men was called Levi, and his father’s name was Alfius. Jesus walked along, and he saw Levi and said to him, “I want you to be one of my followers. Come on, follow me.” And straight away, Levi stood up and went with Jesus.
15Later that day, Jesus and his followers were eating some food at Levi’s house. There were lots of people there. Some of them were men that used to get tax money from people and give it to the Roman government, and some other people there didn’t live God’s way. 16Some of the Jewish law teachers saw Jesus eating with all those people. Those law teachers also belonged to the Pharisee mob. They were really strong for the law, so they asked Jesus’s followers, “Why does Jesus eat with those people that don’t live God’s way?”
17Jesus heard them, and said to them, “Listen, sick people need a doctor, but healthy people don’t need a doctor. I’m telling you, I’m like a doctor. You mob reckon these people do bad things, so I’m here to help them turn around and do good things. But you mob think you never do anything wrong yourselves, so I can’t help you.”
Jesus talked about not eating food
18The mob called Pharisees, that were strong for the Jewish law, they sometimes stopped eating food for a while to show God that they respected him. The followers of John the Baptiser did the same. Some people went to Jesus and asked him, “How come your followers don’t stop eating food to show God that you respect him, you know, just like the Pharisee mob and John’s followers do?”
19Jesus said to them, “At a wedding ceremony everybody is happy, and they all eat food together with the man that is getting married. It’s the same way for my followers. I’m still here, so they are happy and don’t need to stop eating food. Not yet. 20One day, my enemies will take me away, then my followers will be sad, and they will stop eating food.”
21Then Jesus told them 2 picture stories about the things he was teaching, to get them to start thinking a new way. He said, “If you have an old coat with a hole in it, you can’t fix that hole with a new bit of cloth. If you try to do that, and then if you wash it, the new cloth will tear away from the old cloth, and the coat will still be useless.
22And this is another story. You don’t put new drink into an old cracked bottle. That drink will all leak out and you will lose it. You have to put new drink into new bottles.”
Jesus talked about the Jewish rest day
23One day, on the Jewish rest day, Jesus and his followers walked through a garden that had seed food growing in it. They walked along and they got a bit hungry, so his followers grabbed some of the seeds to eat.#Deuteronomy 23:25 24Some of the Pharisee mob saw Jesus’s followers doing that. That mob were strong for the Jewish law, so they got angry. They said to Jesus, “Your mob are doing the wrong thing. Our Jewish law says that today is the rest day. But your mob are getting seeds off those plants. That is work. They are breaking our law.”
25-26Jesus said to them, “Remember the story about David and his men. You know, it was when Abiathar was the big boss of the Jewish ceremonies. David and his men were really hungry, and they didn’t have any food. So David went into God’s ceremony place and got the special bread. Only the men that look after the Jewish ceremonies can eat that bread. But David and his men ate that special bread, and so they broke our Jewish law, but God didn’t punish them.”#1 Samuel 21:1-6; Leviticus 24:9
27Then Jesus said to them, “Listen to me now. God gave us the rest day to help us, not just to give us another law to follow. 28Listen, I am God’s special man from heaven, and I’m boss over everything. I am even the boss of our Jewish rest day. So I’m not worried about my followers grabbing some seeds to eat.”
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