Day 13 of 90

Mark 2:1–3:35

2:1 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

2:2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

2:3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

2:4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof above him. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

2:5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

2:6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

2:7 "Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"

2:8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

2:9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'

2:10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins", he said to the paralytic,

2:11 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."

2:12 And he arose immediately, and took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

2:13 And he went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

2:14 As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

2:15 It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

2:16 The scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

2:17 But when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

2:18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

2:19 And Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

2:20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.

2:21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

2:22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

2:23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

2:24 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

2:25 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry-he, and those who were with him?

2:26 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

2:27 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

2:28 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

3:1 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

3:2 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

3:3 He said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand up in the middle."

3:4 He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.

3:5 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

3:6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

3:7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed from Galilee, from Judea,

3:8 from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, when they heard what great things he did, came to him.

3:9 And he told his disciples that a small boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they would not press on him.

3:10 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

3:11 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"

3:12 And he sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

3:13 And he went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

3:14 And he appointed twelve, designating them apostles, and that he might send them out to preach,

3:15 and to have authority to cast out demons:

3:16 And he appointed the Twelve: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

3:17 Jacob the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of Jacob, and he surnamed them Boanerges which means, Sons of Thunder;

3:18 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; Jacob, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

3:20 Then he came into a house. The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

3:21 When his family heard it, they went out to take charge of him: for they said, "He is out of his mind."

3:22 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

3:23 So he summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

3:24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

3:26 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.

3:27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

3:28 Truly I tell you, all sins of the sons of men will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;

3:29 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal judgment"

3:30 -because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

3:31 Then his brothers and his mother came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

3:32 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you."

3:33 And he answered them, saying, "Who are my mother or my brothers?"

3:34 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

3:35 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."