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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/mark/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Heals a Paralytic</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, <span class="woc">“Son, your sins are forgiven.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, <span class="woc">“Why do you question these things in your hearts?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="woc">Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”</span>—he said to the paralytic— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Calls Levi</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, <span class="woc">“Follow me.”</span> And he rose and followed him.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus 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>And the scribes of<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts and">a</a></sup></span> the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts add and drink">b</a></sup></span> with tax collectors and sinners?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, <span class="woc">“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”</span></p> <p class="heading">A Question About Fasting</p><p class="regular"><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. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="woc">The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="woc">No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="woc">And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit But new wine is for fresh wineskins">c</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="heading">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woc">how he entered the house of God, in the time of<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in the passage about">d</a></sup></span> Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“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="woc">So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Some manuscripts <i>and</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Some manuscripts add <i>and drink</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">But new wine is for fresh wineskins</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">in the</span> passage about</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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