Marcum 2
1 Et iterum intravit Capharnaum post dies,
Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;
2 et auditum est quod in domo esset, et convenerunt multi, ita ut non caperet neque ad ianuam, et loquebatur eis verbum.
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 Et venerunt ad eum ferentes paralyticum, qui a quattuor portabatur.
Some people came, bringing to him a paralysed man, who was being carried by four of them.
4 Et cum non possent offerre eum illi præ turba, nudaverunt tectum ubi erat: et patefacientes submiserunt grabatum, in quo paralyticus iacebat.
They were unable to get him near to Jesus, because of the crowd, so they removed the roof above Jesus, and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralysed man was lying.
5 Cum autem vidisset Iesus fidem illorum, ait paralytico: Fili, dimittuntur tibi peccata tua.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, ‘Child, your sins are forgiven.’
6 Erant autem illic quidam de scribis sedentes, et cogitantes in cordibus suis:
But some of the teachers of the Law who were sitting there were debating in their minds,
7 Quid hic sic loquitur? blasphemat. Quis potest dimittere peccata, nisi solus Deus?
‘Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?’
8 Quo statim cognito Iesus spiritu suo quia sic cogitarent intra se, dicit illis: Quid ista cogitatis in cordibus vestris?
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 Quid est facilius dicere paralytico: Dimittuntur tibi peccata: an dicere: Surge, tolle grabatum tuum, et ambula?
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”?
10 Ut autem sciatis quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, (ait paralytico)
But so you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth’ – here he said to the paralysed man –
11 tibi dico: Surge, tolle grabatum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.
‘To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home.’
12 Et statim surrexit ille: et, sublato grabato, abiit coram omnibus, ita ut mirarentur omnes, et honorificent Deum, dicentes: Quia numquam sic vidimus.
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 Et egressus est rursus ad mare: omnisque turba veniebat ad eum, et docebat eos.
Jesus went out again to the sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.
14 Et cum præteriret, vidit Levi Alphæi sedentem ad telonium, et ait illi: Sequere me. Et surgens secutus est eum.
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 Et factum est, cum accumberet in domo illius, multi publicani, et peccatores simul discumbebant cum Iesu, et discipulis eius: erant enim multi, qui et sequebantur eum.
Later on he was in his house having dinner, and a number of tax collectors and outcasts took their places at the table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.
16 Et scribæ, et Pharisæi videntes quia manducaret cum publicanis, et peccatoribus, dicebant discipulis eius: Quare cum publicanis, et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester?
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, ‘Why does he eat with the tax collectors and outcasts?’
17 Hoc audito Iesus ait illis: Non necesse habent sani medico, sed qui male habent: non enim veni vocare iustos, sed peccatores.
Hearing this, Jesus said, ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.’
18 Et erant discipuli Ioannis, et Pharisæi ieiunantes: et veniunt, et dicunt illi: Quare discipuli Ioannis, et Pharisæorum ieiunant, tui autem discipuli non ieiunant?
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, 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 Et ait illis Iesus: Numquid possunt filii nuptiarum, quamdiu sponsus cum illis est, ieiunare? Quanto tempore habent secum sponsum, non possunt ieiunare.
Jesus answered, ‘Can the groom’s friends fast, while the groom is with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
20 Venient autem dies cum auferetur ab eis sponsus: et tunc ieiunabunt in illis diebus.
But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then – when that day comes.’
21 Nemo assumentum panni rudis assuit vestimento veteri: alioquin aufert supplementum novum a veteri, et maior scissura fit.
‘No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if they do, the patch tears away from it – the new from the old – and a worse tear is made.
22 Et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres: alioquin dirumpet vinum utres, et vinum effundetur, et utres peribunt: sed vinum novum in utres novos mitti debet.
And no one ever puts new wine into old wine-skins; if they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are lost. But new wine is put into fresh skins.’
23 Et factum est iterum Dominus Sabbatis ambularet per sata, et discipuli eius cœperunt progredi, et vellere spicas.
One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.
24 Pharisæi autem dicebant ei: Ecce, quid faciunt Sabbatis quod non licet?
‘Look!’ the Pharisees said to him, ‘why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?’
25 Et ait illis: Numquam legistis quid fecerit David, quando necessitatem habuit, et esuriit ipse, et qui cum eo erant?
‘Have you never read,’ answered Jesus, ‘what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his companions –
26 quomodo introivit in domum Dei sub Abiathar principe sacerdotum, et panes propositionis manducavit, quos non licebat manducare, nisi sacerdotibus, et dedit eis, qui cum eo erant?
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 Et dicebat eis: Sabbatum propter hominem factum est, et non homo propter Sabbatum.
Then Jesus added, ‘The Sabbath was made for people, and not people for the Sabbath;
28 Itaque Dominus est Filius hominis, etiam Sabbati.
so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.’
