Mark 2 NIV
1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered
Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the
door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing
to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. 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
paralyzed man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he
said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." 6 Now
some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7 "Why
does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God
alone?" 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? 9 Which is
easier: to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up,
take your mat and walk'? 10But that you may know that the Son of
Man has authority on earth to forgive sins . .
." He said to the paralytic, 11 "I tell you,
get up, take your mat and go home." 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!"
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A
large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 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. 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. 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'?" 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."
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?" 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. 20 But the time will come when the
bridegroom will be taken from them,and on that day they will
fast. 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. 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."
23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the
grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads
of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him,
"Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?" 25 He answered, "Have you never read
what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 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." 27 Then
he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
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