[QT. English Bible] Mark chapter 2

Mk. 2:1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the

people heard that he had come home.

Mk. 2:2 So many gathered that there was no room left, not even

outside the door, and he preached the word to them.

Mk. 2:3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four

of them.

Mk. 2:4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd,

they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after

digging through it, lowered the mat the paralysed man was

lying on.

Mk. 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son,

your sins are forgiven.”

Mk. 2:6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to

themselves,

Mk. 2:7 “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who

can forgive sins but God alone?”

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Mk. 2:8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they

were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are

you thinking these things?

Mk. 2:9 Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are

forgiven,’ or to say, `Get up, take your mat and walk’?

Mk. 2:10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on

earth to forgive sins....” He said to the paralytic,

Mk. 2:11 “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”

Mk. 2:12 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them

all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We

have never seen anything like this!”

Mk. 2:13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd

came to him, and he began to teach them.

Mk. 2:14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at

the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and

Levi got up and followed him.

Mk. 2:15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax

collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his

disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Mk. 2:16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him

eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his

disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and

`sinners’?”

Mk. 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who

need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the

righteous, but sinners.”

Mk. 2:18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some

people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples

and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are

not?”

Mk. 2:19 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast

while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him

with them.

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Mk. 2:20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken

from them, and on that day they will fast.

Mk. 2:21 “No-one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment.

If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making

the tear worse.

Mk. 2:22 And no-one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does,

the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the

wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new

wineskins.”

Mk. 2:23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the cornfields, and as

his disciples walked along, they began to pick some ears of

corn.

Mk. 2:24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is

unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Mk. 2:25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he

and his companions were hungry and in need?

Mk. 2:26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house

of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only

for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”

Mk. 2:27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not

man for the Sabbath.

Mk. 2:28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”