Mark 2
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And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

saw.

Genesis 22:12 And he said, Lay not your hand on the lad, neither do you any thing …

John 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …

Acts 14:9 The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving …

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: …

1 Thessalonians 1:3,4 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, …

James 2:18-22 Yes, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your …

he said.

Mark 2:9,10 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Your sins be …

Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: …

Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on …

Luke 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said to him, Man, your sins are forgiven you.

Luke 7:47-50 Why I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she …

Acts 5:31 Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, …

2 Corinthians 2:10 To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any …

Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have …

Son. The Jews believed that not only death but all disease was the consequence of sin. 'There is no death without sin, nor any chastisement without iniquity;' and that 'no diseased person could be healed of his disease till his sins were blotted out.' Our Lord, therefore, as usual, appeals to their received opinions, and asserts his high dignity, by first forgiving the sins, and then healing the body of the paralytic.

Mark 5:34 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in …

Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, …

Luke 8:48 And he said to her, Daughter, be of good comfort: your faith has …

sins.

Job 33:17-26 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man…

Psalm 32:1-5 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered…

Psalm 90:7-9 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled…

Psalm 103:3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;

Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to …

John 5:14 Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, …

1 Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise …

But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

when.

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in …

Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think you evil in your hearts?

Luke 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said to them, …

Luke 6:8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered …

Luke 7:39,40 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within …

John 2:24,25 But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men…

John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the …

John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall …

Why.

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …

Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the …

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …

Ezekiel 38:10 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …

Luke 24:38 And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise …

Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to …

Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …

Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

the bridegroom.

Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; …

Songs 3:11 Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the …

Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and …

Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: …

John 3:29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, …

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused …

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage …

Revelation 21:9 And there came to me one of the seven angels which had the seven …

be taken.

Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is …

Matthew 26:31 Then said Jesus to them, All you shall be offended because of me …

John 7:33,34 Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then …

John 12:8 For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.

John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek …

John 16:7,28 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I …

John 17:11,13 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and …

Acts 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken …

Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things…

and.

Acts 13:2,3 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…

Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed …

1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, …

2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, …

No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

Abiathar. It appears from the passage referred to here, that Ahimelech was then high priest at Nob; and from other passages, that Abiathar was his son. Various conjectures have been formed in order to solve this difficulty; and some, instead of untying, have cut the knot, by pronouncing it an interpolation. The most probable opinion seems to be, that both father and son had two names, the father being also called Abiathar; and this appears almost certain from

2 Samuel 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were …

1 Chronicles 18:16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were …

1 Kings 2:26 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to …

1 Kings 2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the LORD; that …

1 Samuel 22:20-22 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, …

1 Samuel 23:6,9 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David …

2 Samuel 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were …

2 Samuel 15:24,29,35 And see Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the …

2 Samuel 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

1 Kings 1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar …

1 Kings 2:22,26,27 And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do you …

1 Kings 4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and …

which is not lawful.

Exodus 29:32,33 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram…

Leviticus 24:5-9 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two …

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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