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Mark 2

1 And after some days, he again entered into Capernaum.

2 And it was heard that he was in the house. And so many gathered that there was no room left, not even at the door. And he spoke the word to them.

3 And they came to him, bringing a paralytic, who was being carried by four men.

4 And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.

5 Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

6 But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts:

7 “Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

8 At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’

10 But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic:

11 “I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house.”

12 And immediately he got up, and lifting up his stretcher, he went away in the sight of them all, so that they all wondered. And they honored God, by saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

13 And he departed again to the sea. And the entire crowd came to him, and he taught them.

14 And as he was passing by, he saw Levi of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.

15 And it happened that, as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat at table together with Jesus and his disciples. For those who followed him were many.

16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

18 And the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, were fasting. And they arrived and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

19 And Jesus said to them: “How can the sons of the wedding fast while the groom is still with them? During whatever time they have the groom with them, they are not able to fast.

20 But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they shall fast, in those days.

21 No one sews a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new addition pulls away from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine will pour out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

23 And again, while the Lord was walking through the ripe grain on the Sabbath, his disciples, as they advanced, began to separate the ears of grains.

24 But the Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”

25 And he said to them: “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God, under the high priest Abiathar, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and how he gave it to those who were with him?”

27 And he said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

28 And so, the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”

Mark 3

1 And again, he entered into the synagogue. And there was a man there who had a withered hand.

2 And they observed him, to see if he would cure on the Sabbaths, so that they might accuse him.

3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up in the middle.”

4 And he said to them: “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbaths, or to do evil, to give health to a life, or to destroy?” But they remained silent.

5 And looking around at them with anger, being very saddened over the blindness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Extend your hand.” And he extended it, and his hand was restored to him.

6 Then the Pharisees, going out, immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, as to how they might destroy him.

7 But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee and Judea,

8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and across the Jordan. And those around Tyre and Sidon, upon hearing what he was doing, came to him in a great multitude.

9 And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, because of the crowd, lest they press upon him.

10 For he healed so many, that as many of them as had wounds would rush toward him in order to touch him.

11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell prostrate before him. And they cried out, saying,

12 “You are the Son of God.” And he strongly admonished them, lest they make him known.

13 And ascending onto a mountain, he called to himself those whom he willed, and they came to him.

14 And he acted so that the twelve would be with him, and so that he might send them out to preach.

15 And he gave them authority to cure infirmities, and to cast out demons:

16 and he imposed on Simon the name Peter;

17 and also he imposed on James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, the name ‘Boanerges,’ that is, ‘Sons of Thunder;’

18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

20 And they went to a house, and the crowd gathered together again, so much so that they were not even able to eat bread.

21 And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: “Because he has gone mad.”

22 And the scribes who had descended from Jerusalem said, “Because he has Beelzebub, and because by the prince of demons does he cast out demons.”

23 And having called them together, he spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

24 For if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand.

25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house is not able to stand.

26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, he would be divided, and he would not be able to stand; instead he reaches the end.

27 No one is able to plunder the goods of a strong man, having entered into the house, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house.

28 Amen I say to you, that all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and the blasphemies by which they will have blasphemed.

29 But he who will have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit shall not have forgiveness in eternity; instead he shall be guilty of an eternal offense.”

30 For they said: “He has an unclean spirit.”

31 And his mother and brothers arrived. And standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

32 And the crowd was sitting around him. And they said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”

33 And responding to them, he said, “Who is my mother and my brothers?”

34 And looking around at those who were sitting all around him, he said: “Behold, my mother and my brothers.

35 For whoever has done the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.”