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Mark 2
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Mark 2
Living Bible
2 Several days later he returned to Capernaum, and the news of his arrival spread quickly through the city. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there wasn’t room for a single person more, not even outside the door. And he preached the Word to them. 3 Four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. 4 They couldn’t get to Jesus through the crowd, so they dug through the clay roof above his head and lowered the sick man on his stretcher, right down in front of Jesus.[a]
5 When Jesus saw how strongly they believed that he would help, Jesus said to the sick man, “Son, your sins are forgiven!”
6 But some of the Jewish religious leaders[b] said to themselves as they sat there, 7 “What? This is blasphemy! Does he think he is God? For only God can forgive sins.”
8 Jesus could read their minds and said to them at once, “Why does this bother you? 9-11 I, the Messiah,[c] have the authority on earth to forgive sins. But talk is cheap—anybody could say that. So I’ll prove it to you by healing this man.” Then, turning to the paralyzed man, he commanded, “Pick up your stretcher and go on home, for you are healed!”
12 The man jumped up, took the stretcher, and pushed his way through the stunned onlookers! Then how they praised God. “We’ve never seen anything like this before!” they all exclaimed.
13 Then Jesus went out to the seashore again and preached to the crowds that gathered around him. 14 As he was walking up the beach he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at his tax collection booth. “Come with me,” Jesus told him. “Come be my disciple.”
And Levi jumped to his feet and went along.
15 That night Levi invited his fellow tax collectors and many other notorious sinners to be his dinner guests so that they could meet Jesus and his disciples. (There were many men of this type among the crowds that followed him.) 16 But when some of the Jewish religious leaders[d] saw him eating with these men of ill repute, they said to his disciples, “How can he stand it, to eat with such scum?”
17 When Jesus heard what they were saying, he told them, “Sick people need the doctor, not healthy ones! I haven’t come to tell good people to repent, but the bad ones.”
18 John’s disciples and the Jewish leaders sometimes fasted, that is, went without food as part of their religion. One day some people came to Jesus and asked why his disciples didn’t do this too.
19 Jesus replied, “Do friends of the bridegroom refuse to eat at the wedding feast? Should they be sad while he is with them? 20 But some day he will be taken away from them, and then they will mourn. 21 Besides, going without food is part of the old way of doing things.[e] It is like patching an old garment with unshrunk cloth! What happens? The patch pulls away and leaves the hole worse than before. 22 You know better than to put new wine into old wineskins. They would burst. The wine would be spilled out and the wineskins ruined. New wine needs fresh wineskins.”
23 Another time, on a Sabbath day as Jesus and his disciples were walking through the fields, the disciples were breaking off heads of wheat and eating the grain.[f]
24 Some of the Jewish religious leaders said to Jesus, “They shouldn’t be doing that! It’s against our laws to work by harvesting grain on the Sabbath.”
25-26 But Jesus replied, “Didn’t you ever hear about the time King David and his companions were hungry, and he went into the house of God—Abiathar was high priest then—and they ate the special bread[g] only priests were allowed to eat? That was against the law too. 27 But the Sabbath was made to benefit man, and not man to benefit the Sabbath. 28 And I, the Messiah,[h] have authority even to decide what men can do on Sabbath days!”
Footnotes
- Mark 2:4 right down in front of Jesus, implied.
- Mark 2:6 religious leaders, literally, “scribes.”
- Mark 2:9 the Messiah, literally, “the Son of Man.”
- Mark 2:16 the Jewish religious leaders, literally, “the scribes of the Pharisees.”
- Mark 2:21 way of doing things, implied.
- Mark 2:23 eating the grain, implied.
- Mark 2:25 special bread, literally “shewbread.”
- Mark 2:28 the Messiah, literally, “the Son of Man.”
Mark 2
New American Standard Bible
Mark 2
New American Standard Bible
The Paralyzed Man Healed
2 When Jesus came back to Capernaum a few days later, it was heard that He was at home. 2 And (A)many were gathered together, so that there was no longer space, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them. 3 (B)And some people *came, bringing to Him a man who was (C)paralyzed, carried by four men. 4 And when they were unable to [a]get to Him because of the crowd, they (D)removed the roof [b]above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet on which the (E)paralyzed man was lying. 5 And Jesus, seeing their faith, *said to the paralyzed man, “Son, (F)your sins are forgiven.” 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking it over in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming! (G)Who can forgive sins except God alone?” 8 Immediately Jesus, aware [c]in His spirit that they were thinking that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you thinking about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the (H)paralyzed man, ‘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 paralyzed man, 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 (I)were glorifying God, saying, “(J)We have never seen anything like this!”
13 And He went out again by the seashore; and (K)all the [d]people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.
Levi (Matthew) Called
14 (L)As He passed by, He saw [e](M)Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax office, and He *said to him, “(N)Follow 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 [f]sinners were [g]dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him. 16 When (O)the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the [h]sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “(P)Why is He eating with tax collectors and [i]sinners?” 17 And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “(Q)It 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 (R)John’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 groom is with them, [j]the attendants of the groom cannot fast, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the (S)days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast, on that day.
21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, [k]the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. 22 And 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.”
Question of the Sabbath
23 (T)And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while (U)picking the heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, (V)why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; 26 how he entered the house of God in the [l]time of (W)Abiathar the high priest, and ate the [m]consecrated bread, which (X)is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” 27 Jesus said to them, “(Y)The Sabbath [n]was made [o]for man, and (Z)not man [p]for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”
Footnotes
- Mark 2:4 Lit bring to
- Mark 2:4 Lit where He was
- Mark 2:8 Lit by
- Mark 2:13 Lit crowd
- Mark 2:14 Also called Matthew
- Mark 2:15 I.e., irreligious Jews
- Mark 2:15 Lit reclining with
- Mark 2:16 I.e., irreligious Jews
- Mark 2:16 I.e., irreligious Jews
- Mark 2:19 Lit sons of the bridal chamber
- Mark 2:21 Lit that which fills up
- Mark 2:26 Or passage about
- Mark 2:26 Lit loaves of presentation
- Mark 2:27 Or came into being
- Mark 2:27 Lit because of; or for the sake of
- Mark 2:27 Lit because of; or for the sake of
Marcos 2
Ang Dating Biblia (1905)
Marcos 2
Ang Dating Biblia (1905)
2 At nang siya'y pumasok uli sa Capernaum pagkaraan ng ilang araw, ay nahayag na siya'y nasa bahay.
2 At maraming nagkatipon, ano pa't hindi na magkasiya, kahit sa pintuan man: at sa kanila'y sinaysay niya ang salita.
3 At sila'y nagsidating, na may dalang isang lalaking lumpo sa kaniya, na usong ng apat.
4 At nang hindi sila mangakalapit sa kaniya dahil sa karamihan, ay kanilang binakbak ang bubungan ng kaniyang kinaroroonan: at nang yao'y kanilang masira, ay inihugos nila ang higaang kinahihigan ng lumpo.
5 At pagkakita ni Jesus sa kanilang pananampalataya ay sinabi sa lumpo, Anak, ipinatatawad ang iyong mga kasalanan.
6 Nguni't mayroon doong nangakaupong ilan sa mga eskriba, at nangagbubulaybulay sa kanilang mga puso,
7 Bakit nagsasalita ang taong ito ng ganito? siya'y namumusong: sino ang makapagpapatawad ng mga kasalanan kundi isa, ang Dios lamang?
8 At pagkaunawa ni Jesus, sa kaniyang espiritu na sila'y nangagbubulaybulay sa kanilang sarili, pagdaka'y sinabi sa kanila, Bakit binubulaybulay ninyo ang mga bagay na ito sa inyong mga puso?
9 Alin baga ang lalong magaang sabihin sa lumpo, Ipinatatawad ang iyong mga kasalanan; o sabihin, Magtindig ka, at buhatin mo ang iyong higaan, at lumakad ka?
10 Datapuwa't upang maalaman ninyo na ang Anak ng tao ay may kapamahalaan sa lupa na magpatawad ng mga kasalanan (sinabi niya sa lumpo),
11 Sa iyo ko sinasabi, Magtindig ka, buhatin mo ang iyong higaan, at umuwi ka sa bahay mo.
12 At nagtindig siya, at pagdaka'y binuhat ang higaan, at yumaon sa harap nilang lahat; ano pa't nangagtaka silang lahat, at niluwalhati nila ang Dios, na nangagsabi, Kailan ma'y hindi tayo nakakita ng ganito.
13 At muling lumabas at naparoon siya sa tabi ng dagat; at lumapit sa kaniya ang buong karamihan, at sila'y kaniyang tinuruan.
14 At sa kaniyang pagdaraan, ay nakita niya si Levi na anak ni Alfeo na nakaupo sa paningilan ng buwis, at sinabi niya sa kaniya, Sumunod ka sa akin. At nagtindig siya at sumunod sa kaniya.
15 At nangyari, na siya'y nakaupo sa pagkain sa kaniyang bahay, at maraming maniningil ng buwis at mga makasalanang nagsiupong kasalo ni Jesus at ng kaniyang mga alagad: sapagka't sila'y marami, at sila'y nagsisunod sa kaniya.
16 At nang makita ng mga eskriba at mga Fariseo, na siya'y kumakaing kasalo ng mga makasalanan at ng mga maniningil ng buwis, ay nagsipagsabi sa kaniyang mga alagad, Ano ito na siya'y kumakain at umiinom na kasalo ng mga maniningil ng buwis at ng mga makasalanan?
17 At nang ito'y marinig ni Jesus, ay sinabi niya sa kanila, Hindi nangangailangan ng manggagamot ang mga walang sakit, kundi ang mga maysakit: hindi ako naparito upang tumawag ng mga matuwid, kundi ng mga makasalanan.
18 At nangagaayuno ang mga alagad ni Juan at ang mga Fariseo: at sila'y nagsilapit at sinabi sa kaniya, Bakit nangagaayuno ang mga alagad ni Juan at ang mga alagad ng mga Fariseo, datapuwa't hindi nangagaayuno ang iyong mga alagad?
19 At sinabi sa kanila ni Jesus, Mangyayari bagang mangagayuno ang mga abay sa kasalan, samantalang ang kasintahang-lalake ay sumasa kanila? samantalang ang kasintahang-lalake ay sumasa kanila, ay hindi sila mangakapagaayuno.
20 Datapuwa't darating ang mga araw, na aalisin sa kanila ang kasintahang-lalake, at kung magkagayo'y mangagaayuno sila sa araw na yaon.
21 Walang taong nagtatagpi ng matibay na kayo sa damit na luma: sa ibang paraan ang itinagpi ay binabatak ang tinagpian, sa makatuwid baga'y ang bago sa luma, at lalong lumalala ang punit.
22 At walang taong nagsisilid ng bagong alak sa mga balat na luma; sa ibang paraan ay pinupunit ng alak ang mga balat at nabububo ang alak at nasisira ang mga balat: kundi ang alak na bago ay isinisilid sa mga bagong balat.
23 At nangyari, na nagdaraan siya sa mga bukiran ng trigo nang araw ng sabbath; at ang mga alagad niya, samantalang nagsisilakad, ay nagpasimulang nagsikitil ng mga uhay.
24 At sinabi sa kaniya ng mga Fariseo, Narito, bakit ginagawa nila sa araw ng sabbath ang hindi matuwid?
25 At sinabi niya sa kanila, Kailan man baga'y hindi ninyo nabasa ang ginawa ni David, nang siya'y mangailangan, at magutom, siya, at ang kaniyang mga kasamahan?
26 Kung paanong pumasok siya sa bahay ng Dios nang panahon ng dakilang saserdoteng si Abiatar, at kumain siya ng tinapay na itinalaga, na hindi matuwid kanin maliban na sa mga saserdote lamang, at binigyan pa rin niya ang kaniyang mga kasamahan?
27 At sinabi niya sa kanila, Ginawa ang sabbath ng dahil sa tao, at di ang tao ng dahil sa sabbath:
28 Kaya't ang Anak ng tao ay panginoon din naman ng sabbath.
Mark 2
New International Version
Mark 2
New International Version
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man(A)
2 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers(B) that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,(C) carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”(D)
6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7 “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”(E)
8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? 9 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? 10 But I want you to know that the Son of Man(F) has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, 11 “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 12 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God,(G) saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”(H)
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners(I)
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him,(J) and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”(K) Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees(L) saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”(M)
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(N)
Jesus Questioned About Fasting(O)
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting.(P) Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
19 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them,(Q) and on that day they will fast.
21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath(R)(S)
23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.(T) 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”(U)
25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest,(V) he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat.(W) And he also gave some to his companions.”(X)
27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man,(Y) not man for the Sabbath.(Z) 28 So the Son of Man(AA) is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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