Mark 2 (NET)

Mark 2:1¹Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:2²So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:3³Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:4⁴When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:5⁵When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:6⁶Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:7⁷“Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:8⁸Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:9⁹Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:10¹⁰But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—he said to the paralytic —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:11¹¹“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:12¹²And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:13¹³Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:14¹⁴As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:15¹⁵As Jesus was having a meal in Levi’s home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:16¹⁶When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:17¹⁷When Jesus heard this he said to them, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:18¹⁸Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:19¹⁹Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:20²⁰But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and at that time they will fast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:21²¹No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:22²²And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:23²³Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:24²⁴So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:25²⁵He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:26²⁶how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:27²⁷Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Mark 2:28²⁸For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions