Mark 2:1-22

The Paralytic Healed

1 When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

2 And ¹many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.

3 ²And they came, bringing to Him a ³paralytic, carried by four men.

4 Being unable * to get to Him because of the crowd, they ⁴removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the ⁵paralytic was lying.

5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, "Son, ⁶your sins are forgiven."

6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

7 "Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; ⁷who can forgive sins but God alone?"

8 Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them, "Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

9 "Which is easier, to say to the ⁸paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven '; or to say, 'Get up, and pick up your pallet 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, get up, pick up your pallet and go home."

12 And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and ⁹were glorifying God, saying, "¹⁰We have never seen anything like this."

13 And He went out again by the seashore; and ¹¹all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.

Levi (Matthew) Called

14 ¹²As He passed by, He saw ¹³Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "¹⁴Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

15 And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

16 When ¹⁵the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, "¹⁶Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?"

17 And hearing this, Jesus said to them, "¹⁷It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

18 ¹⁸John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, "Why * do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

19 And Jesus said to them, "While * the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot * fast.

20 "But the ¹⁹days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

21 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

Cross References

• 1. Mark 1:45; Mark 2:13
• 2. Mark 2:3-12: {Matthew 9:2-8; Luke 5:18-26}
• 3. Matthew 4:24
• 4. Luke 5:19
• 5. Matthew 4:24
• 6. Matthew 9:2
• 7. Isaiah 43:25
• 8. Matthew 4:24
• 9. Matthew 9:8
• 10. Matthew 9:33
• 11. Mark 1:45
• 12. Mark 2:14-17: {Matthew 9:9-13; Luke 5:27-32}
• 13. Matthew 9:9
• 14. Matthew 8:22
• 15. Luke 5:30; Acts 23:9
• 16. Matthew 9:11
• 17. Matthew 9:12, 13; Luke 5:31, 32
• 18. Mark 2:18-22: {Matthew 9:14-17; Luke 5:33-38}
• 19. Matthew 9:15; Luke 17:22

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "bring to"
• [b]. Lit "where He was"
• [c]. Lit "child"
• [d]. Lit "if not one, God"
• [e]. Lit "by"
• [f]. Lit "crowd"
• [g]. also called "Matthew"
• [h]. Lit "happens"
• [i]. I.e. irreligious Jews
• [j]. Lit "were reclining with"
• [k]. I.e. irreligious Jews
• [l]. Lit "sons of the bridal-chamber"
• [m]. Lit "that which is put on"
• [n]. Lit "that which fills up"