赦罪與治病

過了些日子,耶穌又進了迦百農。人們聽說他在房子[a]裡, 許多人就聚集,甚至連門前都沒有空處了。於是耶穌就向他們講道。 這時候,一些人帶了一個癱瘓的人來到耶穌那裡,是被四個人抬來的; 但由於人多,無法抬到耶穌面前[b],他們就把耶穌上方的屋頂拆了。拆通之後,就把躺在墊子上那癱瘓的人縋了下去。

耶穌看見他們的信心,就對癱瘓的人說:「孩子,你的罪孽被赦免了。」

可是,有一些經文士坐在那裡,心裡想: 「這個人怎麼這樣說話呢?他說褻瀆的話!除了神一位之外,誰能赦免罪呢?」

耶穌靈裡立刻知道他們心裡這樣想,就對他們說:「你們心裡為什麼想這些事呢? 對這癱瘓的人說『你的罪孽被赦免了』,或說『你起來,拿起墊子走路』,哪一樣更容易呢? 10 不過為要使你們知道人子在地上有赦免罪的權柄——」耶穌就對癱瘓的人說: 11 「我吩咐你:起來,拿起你的墊子,回家去吧!」

12 那個人就立刻起來,拿起墊子在大家面前出去了。結果大家都驚訝,就榮耀神,說:「我們從來沒有見過這樣的事。」

呼召馬太

13 後來,耶穌又出去,到了加利利湖邊[c]。眾人都來到他那裡,他就教導他們。 14 耶穌往前走,看見亞勒腓的兒子利未[d]在稅關坐著。耶穌對他說:「你跟從我!」利未就站起來,跟從了耶穌。

與罪人吃飯

15 耶穌在利未家裡坐席的時候,許多稅吏和罪人與耶穌及他的門徒們一同坐席,因為有許多這樣的人也跟隨了耶穌。 16 有些法利賽派的經文士[e]見耶穌與罪人和稅吏一起吃飯,就對耶穌的門徒們說:「他怎麼與那些稅吏和罪人一起吃飯[f]呢?」

17 耶穌聽見了,就對他們說:「健康的人不需要醫生,有病的人才需要。我來不是要召喚義人,而是要召喚罪人[g]。」

禁食的問題

18 約翰的門徒們和法利賽[h]正禁食的時候,有些人來問耶穌:「為什麼約翰的門徒們和法利賽人的門徒們都禁食,而你的門徒們卻不禁食呢?」

19 耶穌對他們說:「新郎與賓客[i]在一起的時候,難道賓客能禁食嗎?只要他們與新郎在一起,他們就不能禁食。 20 可是日子將要來到:當新郎從他們中間被帶走的時候,他們那時——在那一天就要禁食了。 21 沒有人把沒縮過水的布塊補在舊衣服上。否則所補上的新布會扯壞舊衣服,造成更大的裂口。 22 同樣,也沒有人把新酒裝在舊皮袋裡,否則酒[j]會脹破皮袋,酒和皮袋都糟蹋了[k]。因此,新酒必須裝[l]在新皮袋裡。」

安息日的主

23 有一次在安息日,耶穌從麥田經過,他的門徒們開始邊走邊摘麥穗。 24 有些法利賽人對耶穌說:「你看,他們為什麼做安息日不可以做的事呢?」

25 耶穌對他們說:大衛和那些與他在一起的人飢餓缺乏時所做的事,難道你們從來沒有讀過嗎? 26 亞比亞達任大祭司的時候,他難道不是進了神的殿[m],吃了陳設餅,還分給與他在一起的人嗎?這餅除了祭司,誰都不可以吃。」 27 接著,耶穌對他們說:「安息日是為人而存在的,人不是為安息日而存在的。 28 所以,人子是主,也是安息日的主。」

Footnotes

  1. 馬可福音 2:1 房子——或譯作「家」。
  2. 馬可福音 2:4 抬到耶穌面前——有古抄本作「靠近他(耶穌)」。
  3. 馬可福音 2:13 湖——原文直譯「海」。
  4. 馬可福音 2:14 利未——就是「馬太」。
  5. 馬可福音 2:16 有些法利賽派的經文士——有古抄本作「有些經文士和法利賽人」。
  6. 馬可福音 2:16 吃飯——有古抄本作「吃喝」。
  7. 馬可福音 2:17 有古抄本附「來悔改」。
  8. 馬可福音 2:18 法利賽人——有古抄本作「法利賽人的門徒們」。
  9. 馬可福音 2:19 賓客——或譯作「伴郎」;原文直譯「新房之子」。
  10. 馬可福音 2:22 酒——有古抄本作「新酒」。
  11. 馬可福音 2:22 酒和皮袋都糟蹋了——有古抄本作「酒會流出來,皮袋也會糟蹋了」。
  12. 馬可福音 2:22 有古抄本沒有「必須裝」。
  13. 馬可福音 2:26 殿——原文直譯「家」。

Healing and forgiveness

After a few days, Jesus went back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home. So many gathered that there was no longer space, not even near the door. Jesus was speaking the word to them. Some people arrived, and four of them were bringing to him a man who was paralyzed. They couldn’t carry him through the crowd, so they tore off part of the roof above where Jesus was. When they had made an opening, they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven!”

Some legal experts were sitting there, muttering among themselves, “Why does he speak this way? He’s insulting God. Only the one God can forgive sins.”

Jesus immediately recognized what they were discussing, and he said to them, “Why do you fill your minds with these questions? Which is easier—to say to a paralyzed person, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk’? 10 But so you will know that the Human One[a] has authority on the earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed, 11 “Get up, take your mat, and go home.”

12 Jesus raised him up, and right away he picked up his mat and walked out in front of everybody. They were all amazed and praised God, saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this!”

Eating with sinners

13 Jesus went out beside the lake again. The whole crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he continued along, he saw Levi, Alphaeus’ son, sitting at a kiosk for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Levi got up and followed him.

15 Jesus sat down to eat at Levi’s house. Many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples. Indeed, many of them had become his followers. 16 When some of the legal experts from among the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why is he eating with sinners and tax collectors?”

17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. I didn’t come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

When to fast

18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees had a habit of fasting. Some people asked Jesus, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but yours don’t?”

19 Jesus said, “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 days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

21 “No one sews a piece of new, unshrunk cloth on old clothes; otherwise, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and makes a worse tear. 22 No one pours new wine into old leather wineskins; otherwise, the wine would burst the wineskins and the wine would be lost and the wineskins destroyed. But new wine is for new wineskins.”

Scripture and the Sabbath

23 Jesus went through the wheat fields on the Sabbath. As the disciples made their way, they were picking the heads of wheat. 24 The Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look! Why are they breaking the Sabbath law?”

25 He said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he was in need, when he and those with him were hungry? 26 During the time when Abiathar was high priest, David went into God’s house and ate the bread of the presence, which only the priests were allowed to eat. He also gave bread to those who were with him.” 27 Then he said, “The Sabbath was created for humans; humans weren’t created for the Sabbath. 28 This is why the Human One[b] is Lord even over the Sabbath.”

Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:10 Or Son of Man
  2. Mark 2:28 Or Son of Man