GREAT THINGS ENTERPRISE
CLAUDE BLACK
Mark Translation
Mark 2
Close literal translaiton
1. And again entering into Capernaum, after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.
2. And many gathered so that there was no longer room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.
3. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic, being carried by four.
4. And because they were not able to bring to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and after digging through, they lowered the mat where the paralytic was lying.
5. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6. But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts.
7. Why does this man speak thus? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive sins except one, God?
8. And then Jesus, knowing personally in his spirit that they were reasoning in themselves in this way, said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?”
9. What is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and take you mat and walk?’”
10. And in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins . . . .” He said to the paralytic,
11. I say to you, “Get up, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
12. And he got up, and took the mat, and went out before all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”
13. And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he began teaching them.
14. And as he was going along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collection booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And getting up, he followed him.
15. And it happened that he was reclining in his [Levi’s] house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for they were many, and they followed him.
16. And when the scribes and some of 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?”
17. And when Jesus heard this, he said to them, “The healthy do not need a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
18. And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
19. And Jesus said to them, “Are the sons of the bride chamber able to fast while they have the bridegroom with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast.
20. And days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them and then they will fast in that day.
21. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.
22. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine and wineskins will be lost. But they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
23. And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to travel through, plucking heads of grain.
24. And the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing on the Sabbath what is not lawful?”
25. And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and hungered, he, and those with him?
26. How he entered into the house of God at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and he ate the bread of the presentation, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and he also gave to those with him?”
27. And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
28. So that the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
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