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The report went out that he was home. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Many people had gathered. There was no room left, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking [God's] word to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Four men came to him carrying a paralyzed man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Since they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where Jesus was. Then they lowered the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Some scribes were sitting there. They thought, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Why does he talk this way? He's dishonoring God. Who besides God can forgive sins?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>At once, Jesus knew inwardly what they were thinking. He asked them, "Why do you have these thoughts? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Is it easier to say to this paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, pick up your cot, and walk'? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." Then he said to the paralyzed man, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"I'm telling you to get up, pick up your cot, and go home!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The man got up, immediately picked up his cot, and walked away while everyone watched. Everyone was amazed and praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jesus went to the seashore again. Large crowds came to him, and he taught them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Jesus was leaving, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting in a tax office. Jesus said to him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Later Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners who were followers of Jesus were eating with him and his disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the scribes who were Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When Jesus heard that, he said to them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor; those who are sick do. I've come to call sinners, not people who think they have God's approval."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came to Jesus and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus replied, "Can wedding guests fast while the groom is still with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"No one patches an old coat with a new piece of cloth that will shrink. Otherwise, the new patch will shrink and rip away some of the old cloth, and the tear will become worse. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>People don't pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is to be poured into fresh skins."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Once on a day of worship Jesus was going through the grainfields. As the disciples walked along, they began to pick the heads of grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are your disciples doing something that is not permitted on the day of worship?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus asked them, "Haven't you ever read what David did when he and his men were in need and were hungry? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Haven't you ever read how he went into the house of God when Abiathar was chief priest and ate the bread of the presence? He had no right to eat those loaves. Only the priests have that right. Haven't you ever read how he also gave some of it to his men?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he added, "The day of worship was made for people, not people for the day of worship. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For this reason the Son of Man has authority over the day of worship."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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