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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Mark 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/mark/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/mark/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Mark 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/1.htm" title="Mark 1">◄</a> Mark 2 <a href="../mark/3.htm" title="Mark 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/mark/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, <span class="red">“Son, your sins are forgiven.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, <span class="red">“Why are you thinking these things?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”</span> So he said to the man, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">“I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. <span class="red">“Follow me,”</span> Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>On hearing this, Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. 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?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">“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.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">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.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He answered, <span class="red">“Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he said to them, <span class="red">“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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