Mark 2
1 Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;
And he entered again into Capernaum after [several] days, and it was reported that he was at [the] house;
2 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.
and straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.
3 And some people came, bringing to him a paralysed man, who was being carried by four bearers.
And there come to him [men] bringing a paralytic, borne by four;
4 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.
and, not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug [it] up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man: “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
But Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins are forgiven [thee].
6 But some of the Teachers of the Law who were sitting there were debating in their minds:
But certain of the scribes were there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts,
7 “Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?”
Why does this [man] thus speak? he blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?
8 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?
And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
9 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’?
Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth” — here he said to the paralysed man —
But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic,
11 “To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home.”
To thee I say, Arise, take up thy couch and go to thine house.
12 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!”
And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch, went out before [them] all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.
13 Jesus went out again to the Sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.
And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them.
14 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.
And passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.
15 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.
And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him.
16 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!”
And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, Why [is it] that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners?
17 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.”
And Jesus having heard [it] says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous [men], but sinners.
18 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?”
And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
19 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.
And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then — when that day comes.
But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.
21 “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.
No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.
22 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.”
And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.
23 One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.
And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.
24 “Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?”
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful?
25 “Have you never read,” answered Jesus, “what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions —
And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him,
26 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?”
how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?
27 Then Jesus added: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;
And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath;
28 so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.
