1142 Mark 2 – 3
18 John ’ s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting ; and they * came and * said to Him , “ Why do John ’ s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast , but Your disciples do not fast ?”
19 And Jesus said to them , “ While the bridegroom is with them , the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast , can they ? So long as they have the bridegroom with them , they cannot fast .
20 “ But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them , and then they will fast in that day .
21 “ No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment ; otherwise the patch pulls away from it , the new from the old , and a worse tear results .
22 “ No one puts new wine into old wineskins ; otherwise the wine will burst the skins , and the wine is lost and the skins as well ; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins .”
Question of the Sabbath
23 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath , and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain .
24 The Pharisees were saying to Him , “ Look , why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath ?”
25 And He * said to them , “ Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry ;
26 how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest , and ate the consecrated bread , which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests , and he also gave it to those who were with him ?”
27 Jesus said to them , “ The Sabbath was made for man , and not man for the Sabbath .
28 “ So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath .”
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
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He entered again into a synagogue ; and a man was there whose hand was withered .
2 They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath , so that they might accuse Him .
3 He * said to the man with the withered hand , “ Get up and come forward !”
4 And He * said to them , “ Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath , to save a life or to kill ?” But they kept silent .
5 After looking around at them with anger , grieved at their hardness of heart , He * said to the man , “ Stretch out your hand .” And he stretched it out , and his hand was restored .
6 The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him , as to how they might destroy Him .
7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples ; and a great multitude from Galilee followed ; and also from Judea ,
8 and from Jerusalem , and from Idumea , and beyond the Jordan , and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon , a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him .
9 And He told His disciples that a boat
House Roofs
House roofs in New Testament times were made by laying branches over roof beams . Mud was packed over the branches . The friends who carried a paralyzed man to Jesus dug through the mud roof of a house and lowered the sick man into the room where Jesus was teaching .