Mark 2

1When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.Cross-references: Matt 9:1 · Mark 1:45 · Mark 7:24 · Luke 5:18 · Luke 18:35 · John 4:47 · +1 more

2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.Cross-references: Ps 40:9 · Matt 5:2 · Mark 1:14 · Mark 1:33 · Mark 1:37 · Mark 1:45 · +13 more

3Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.Cross-references: Matt 4:24 · Matt 9:1 · Luke 5:18

4When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.Cross-references: Deut 22:8 · Luke 5:19

5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Job 33:17 · Ps 32:1 · Ps 90:7 · Ps 103:3 · Isa 38:17 · +20 more

6But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,Cross-references: Matt 16:7 · Mark 8:17 · Luke 5:21 · 2Cor 10:5

7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”Cross-references: Job 14:4 · Ps 130:4 · Isa 43:25 · Dan 9:9 · Mic 7:18 · Matt 9:3 · +7 more

8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?Cross-references: 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 139:2 · Prov 15:26 · Prov 24:9 · Isa 55:7 · Ezek 38:10 · +13 more

9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’?Cross-references: Matt 9:5 · Luke 5:22

10But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—Cross-references: Dan 7:13 · Matt 9:6 · Matt 16:13 · John 5:20 · Acts 5:31 · 1Tim 1:13

11“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”Cross-references: Mark 1:41 · John 5:8 · John 6:63

12He arose, and immediately 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!”Cross-references: Matt 9:8 · Matt 9:33 · Matt 12:23 · Matt 15:31 · Mark 1:27 · Luke 5:26 · +6 more

13He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.Cross-references: Prov 1:20 · Matt 9:9 · Matt 13:1 · Mark 1:45 · Mark 2:2 · Mark 3:7 · +4 more

14As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.Cross-references: Matt 4:19 · Matt 9:9 · Mark 1:17 · Mark 3:18 · Luke 5:27 · Luke 6:15 · +1 more

15He 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.Cross-references: Matt 9:10 · Matt 21:31 · Luke 5:29 · Luke 6:17 · Luke 15:1

16The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”Cross-references: Isa 65:5 · Matt 9:11 · Matt 18:17 · Mark 2:7 · Luke 15:2 · Luke 18:11 · +5 more

17When 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 to repentance.”Cross-references: Isa 1:18 · Isa 55:7 · Matt 9:12 · Matt 18:10 · Luke 5:31 · Luke 15:7 · +14 more

18John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”Cross-references: Matt 6:16 · Matt 6:18 · Matt 9:14 · Matt 23:5 · Luke 5:33 · Luke 18:12 · +1 more

19Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.Cross-references: Gen 29:22 · Judg 14:10 · Ps 45:14 · Song 6:8 · Matt 25:1

20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.Cross-references: Ps 45:11 · Song 3:11 · Isa 54:5 · Isa 62:5 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 26:31 · +19 more

21No 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.Cross-references: Ps 103:13 · Isa 57:16 · Matt 9:16 · 1Cor 10:13

22No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”Cross-references: Josh 9:4 · Josh 9:13 · Job 32:19 · Ps 119:80 · Ps 119:83 · Matt 9:17 · +1 more

23He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.Cross-references: Deut 23:24 · Matt 12:1 · Luke 6:1

24The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”Cross-references: Ex 20:10 · Ex 31:15 · Ex 35:2 · Num 15:32 · Neh 13:15 · Isa 56:2 · +11 more

25He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?Cross-references: 1Sam 21:3 · Matt 19:4 · Matt 21:16 · Matt 21:42 · Matt 22:31 · Mark 12:20 · +2 more

26How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the 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?”Cross-references: Ex 29:32 · Lev 24:5 · 1Sam 21:1 · 1Sam 22:20 · 1Sam 23:6 · 1Sam 23:9 · +10 more

27He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.Cross-references: Ex 23:12 · Deut 5:14 · Neh 9:13 · Isa 58:13 · Ezek 20:12 · Ezek 20:20 · +5 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

28Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”Cross-references: Matt 12:8 · Mark 3:4 · Luke 6:5 · Luke 13:15 · John 5:9 · John 5:17 · +5 more