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Mark 2
Part 1 of 2
1 Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. 2 Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them 3 when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men. 4 Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, |Son, your sins are forgiven.| 6 Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves, 7 |Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?| 8 At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. |Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?| he asked them. 9 |Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or 'Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'? 10 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...| Then he told the paralyzed man, 11 |I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!| 12 So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, |We have never seen anything like this!| 13 Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd kept coming to him, and he kept teaching them. 14 As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, |Follow me!| So Levi got up and followed him. 15 Later, he was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners were also eating with Jesus and his disciples, because there were many who were following him. 16 When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, |Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?| 17 When Jesus heard that, he told them, |Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.| 18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, |Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?| 19 Jesus replied, |The wedding guests can't fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they can't fast. 20 But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.| 21 |No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.| 23 Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees asked him, |Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?| 25 He asked them, |Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?| 27 Then he told them, |The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.|
Mark 3
Part 2 of 2
1 Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there. 2 The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong. 3 He told the man with the paralyzed hand, |Come forward.| 4 Then he asked them, |Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?| But they remained silent. 5 Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, |Hold out your hand.| The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health. 6 Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him. 7 So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea, 8 Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing. 9 Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him, 10 because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him. 11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, |You are the Son of God!| 12 But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was. 13 Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him. 14 He appointed the Twelve, whom he called apostles, to accompany him, to be sent out to preach, 15 and to have the authority to drive out demons. 16 He appointed the Twelve: Simon (whom he named Peter), 17 Zebedee's sons James and his brother John (whom he named Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder), 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Cananaean, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 20 Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat. 21 When his family heard about it, they went to restrain him, because they kept saying, |He's out of his mind!| 22 The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, |He has Beelzebul,| and, |He drives out demons by the ruler of demons.| 23 So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. |How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a household is divided against itself, that household won't stand. 26 So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come. 27 No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house. 28 I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter. 29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin.| 30 ...because they had been saying, |He has an unclean spirit.| 31 Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him. They told him, |Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you.| 33 He answered them, |Who are my mother and my brothers?| 34 Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, |Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.| Mark 2:1-3:35, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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