Mark 2 - Christian Standard Bible（CSB）

The Son of Man Forgives and Heals

1When  he entered Capernaum  again after some days, it was reported that he was at home.

2So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and he was speaking the word  to them.

3They came to him bringing a paralytic,  carried by four of them.

4Since they were not able to bring him to  Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

5Seeing their faith,  Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins   are forgiven.”  

6But some of the scribes  were sitting there, questioning  in their hearts:

7“Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming!  Who can forgive  sins  but God alone? ” 

8Right away  Jesus perceived in his spirit  that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

9Which is easier:   to say to the paralytic,   ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’?  

10But so that you may know that the Son of Man   has authority   on earth to forgive sins”    #— #he told the paralytic —

11“I tell you: get up,   take your mat, and go home.”

12Immediately he got up, took the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded  and gave glory  to God,  saying, “We have never seen anything like this! ”  The Call of Levi

13Jesus  went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching  them.

14Then, passing by, he saw Levi  the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office,  and he said to him, “Follow me,”   and he got up and followed  him.

15While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors  and sinners  were eating  with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

16When the scribes  who were Pharisees  ,

saw that he was eating  with sinners  and tax collectors,  they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat  with tax collectors and sinners? ”

17When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It is not those who are well who need   a doctor,   but those who are sick.   I didn’t come to call the righteous,   but sinners.”   A Question about Fasting

18Now  John’s  disciples  and the Pharisees  ,

were fasting.  People came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast? ”

19Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom   is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

20But the time   will come   when the groom will be taken away from them,   and then they will fast   on that day.

21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth,   and a worse tear is made.

22And no one puts new wine   into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst   the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins.”

Lord of the Sabbath

23On  the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples  began to make their way, picking some heads of grain.

24The Pharisees  said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful  on the Sabbath? ”

25He said to them, “Have you never read what David   and those who were with him did when he was in need   and hungry   #— #

26how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar   the high priest   and ate the bread of the Presence   #— #which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests   #— #and also gave some to his companions? ”

27Then he told them, “The Sabbath was made for   man and not man for the Sabbath.  

28So then, the Son of Man   is Lord   even of the Sabbath.”