Marcum 2
1 Et iterum intravit Capharnaum post dies octo,
Some days later when Jesus entered Capernaum again the news spread, "He is in the house";
2 et auditum est quod in domo esset, et convenerunt multi, ita ut non caperet neque ad ianuam, et loquebatur eis verbum.
and at once such a crowd gathered that there was no longer room for them, even around the door.
3 Et venerunt ad eum ferentes paralyticum, qui a quattuor portabatur.
While he was speaking his message, they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four men.
4 Et cum non possent offerre eum illi prae turba, nudaverunt tectum ubi erat: et patefacientes submiserunt grabatum, in quo paralyticus iacebat.
When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.
5 Cum autem vidisset Iesus fidem illorum, ait paralytico: Fili, dimittuntur tibi peccata tua.
Then Jesus, when he perceived their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son your sins are forgiven."
6 Erant autem illic quidam de Scribis sedentes, et cogitantes in cordibus suis:
But there were some Scribes sitting there who reasoned in their hearts.
7 Quid hic sic loquitur? blasphemat. Quis potest dimittere peccata, nisi solus Deus?
"Why does this man speak like this? He blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins but One, God himself?"
8 Quo statim cognito Iesus spiritu suo quia sic cogitarent intra se, dicit illis: Quid ista cogitatis in cordibus vestris?
Jesus clearly perceived at once be the Spirit that they were thus reasoning in their hearts and said to them.
9 Quid est facilius dicere paralytico: Dimittuntur tibi peccata: an dicere: Surge, tolle grabatum tuum, et ambula?
"Why do you reason thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your cot and walk’?
10 Ut autem sciatis quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, (ait paralytico)
But to let you see that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -he said to the paralytic-
11 tibi dico: Surge, tolle grabatum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.
"I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."
12 Et statim surrexit ille: et, sublato grabato, abiit inde coram omnibus, ita ut mirarentur omnes, et honorificent Deum, dicentes: Quia numquam sic vidimus.
The man rose, at once took up his cot, and went out before them all; at which they were all astounded, and gave God glory, saying, "We never saw anything like this."
13 Et egressus est rursus ad mare: omnisque turba veniebat ad eum, et docebat eos.
Then Jesus went again to the seaside, and the whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them.
14 Et cum praeteriret, vidit Levi Alphaei sedentem ad telonium, et ait illi: Sequere me. Et surgens secutus est eum.
As he was passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office; and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose 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 sequebantur eum.
Later on Levi was sitting at table in his house, and together with Jesus and his disciples a number of tax-gatherers and sinners were guests, for there were many of them who used to follow him.
16 Et Scribae, et Pharisaei videntes quia manducaret cum publicanis, et peccatoribus, dixerunt discipulis eius: Quare cum publicanis, et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester?
But when some scribes of the Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax-gatherers, they said to his disciples, "Is he eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"
17 Hoc audito Iesus ait illis: Non necesse habent sani medico, sed qui malehabent: non enim veni vocare iustos, sed peccatores.
On hearing this Jesus said to them. "It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
18 Et erant discipuli Ioannis, et Pharisaei ieiunantes: et veniunt, et dicunt illi: Quare discipuli Ioannis, et Pharisaeorum ieiunant, tui autem discipuli non ieiunant?
Now the disciples of Johnand the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of Johnand the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"
19 Et ait illis Iesus: Numquid possunt filii nuptiarum, quamdiu sponsus cum illis est, ieiunare? Quanto tempore habent secum sponsum, non possunt ieiunare.
"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom 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 Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then, on that day, they will fast.
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 onto an old garment, otherwise 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 pours new wine into old wine-skins, else the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.
23 Et factum est iterum Dominus sabbatis ambularet per sata, discipuli eius coeperunt progredi, et vellere spicas.
One Sabbath he was walking along through the wheat-fields, and his disciples, as they began to make their way across, were pulling the heads of wheat.
24 Pharisaei autem dicebant ei: Ecce, quid faciunt discipuli tui sabbatis quod non licet?
"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"
25 Et ait illis: Numquam legistis quid fecerit David, quando necessitatem habuit, et esuriit ipse, et qui cum eo erant?
He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?
26 quomodo introivit in domum Dei sub Abiathar principe sacerdotum, et panes propositionis manducavit, quos non licebat manducare, nisi solis sacerdotibus, et dedit eis, qui cum eo erant?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?
27 Et dicebat eis: Sabbatum propter hominem factum est, et non homo propter sabbatum.
"The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;
28 Itaque Dominus est filius hominis, etiam sabbati.
so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."
