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MARK 2
“I am will­ing to do it,” J ­ esus said. “Be
‘­clean’!” 42  ­Right away the dis­ease left
the man, and he was “­clean.”
43  ­Jesus sent him away at once. He gave
the man a ­strong warn­ing. 44  “­Don’t tell
this to any­one,” he said. “Go and show
your­self to the ­priest. Of­fer the sac­ri­fic­es
that Mo­ses com­mand­ed. It will be a wit­
ness to the ­priest and the peo­ple that
you are ‘­clean.’ ” 45  But the man went
out and start­ed talk­ing r ­ ight away. He
spread the news to ev­ery­one. So ­Jesus
could no lon­ger en­ter a town open­ly. He
stayed out­side in lone­ly plac­es. But peo­
ple ­still came to him from ev­ery­where.
JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS A
MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK
A few days lat­
er, ­
Jesus en­
tered
Ca­per­na­um ­again. The peo­ple
heard that he had come home.
2  So many peo­
ple gath­ered that t ­ here
was no room left. T
­ here was not even
room out­
side the door. And J ­ esus
preached the word to them. 3  Four of
those who came were car­ry­ing a man
who c ­ ould not walk. 4  But they ­could
not get him ­close to ­Jesus be­cause of the
crowd. So they made a hole by dig­ging
through the roof ­above J ­ esus. Then they
low­ered the man ­through it on a mat.
5  ­Jesus saw ­their f ­ aith. So he said to the
man, “Son, your sins are for­giv­en.”
6  Some teach­ers of the law were sit­ting
there. They were think­ing, 7  “Why is this
fel­low talk­ing like that? He’s say­ing a very
evil ­thing! Only God can for­give sins!”
8  ­
Right away J ­ esus knew what they
were think­ing. So he said to them, “Why
are you think­ing ­these ­things? 9  Is it eas­
i­er to say to this man, ‘Your sins are for­
giv­en’? Or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat
and walk’? 10  But I want you to know
that the Son of Man has au­thor­i­ty on
earth to for­give sins.” So J ­ esus s ­ poke to
the man who ­could not walk. 11  “I tell
you,” he said, “get up. Take your mat and
go home.” 12  The man got up and took
his mat. Then he w
­ alked away w
­ hile
ev­ery­one ­watched. All the peo­ple were
amazed. They ­
­
praised God and said,
“We have nev­er seen any­thing like this!”
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JESUS CHOOSES LEVI AND EATS
WITH SINNERS
13  Once ­
again J ­ esus went out be­side
the Sea of Gal­i­lee. A ­large ­crowd came
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to him. He be­gan to ­teach them. 14  As he
walked ­along he saw Levi, the son of Al­
phae­us. Levi was sit­ting at the tax col­lec­
tor’s ­booth. “Fol­low me,” J ­ esus told him.
Levi got up and fol­lowed him.
15  Lat­
er J ­ esus was hav­ing din­ner at
Le­vi’s h
­ ouse. Many tax col­lec­tors and
sin­ners were eat­ing with him and his
dis­ci­ples. They were part of the l ­ arge
crowd fol­low­ing ­Jesus. 16  Some teach­
ers of the law who were Phar­i­sees were
there. They saw ­Jesus eat­ing with sin­
ners and tax col­lec­tors. So they ­asked
his dis­ci­ples, “Why does he eat with tax
col­lec­tors and sin­ners?”
17  ­Jesus ­heard that. So he said to them,
“­Those who are ­healthy d
­ on’t need a
doc­tor. Sick peo­ple do. I have not come
to get ­those who ­think they are ­right
with God to fol­low me. I have come to
get sin­ners to fol­low me.”
JESUS IS ASKED ABOUT FASTING
18  ­John’s dis­ci­ples and the Phar­i­sees
were go­ing with­out eat­ing. Some peo­ple
came to ­Jesus. They said to him, “­John’s
dis­ci­ples are fast­ing. The dis­ci­ples of the
Phar­i­sees are also fast­ing. But your dis­
ci­ples are not. Why ­aren’t they?”
19  ­
Jesus an­
swered, “How can the
guests of the g ­ room go with­out eat­ing
while he is with them? They will not fast
as long as he is with them. 20  But the
time will come when the g ­ room will be
tak­en away from them. On that day they
will go with­out eat­ing.
21  “No one sews a ­patch of new ­cloth
on old c ­ lothes. Oth­er­wise, the new p
­ iece
will pull away from the old. That will
make the tear ­worse. 22  No one ­pours
new wine into old wine­skins. Oth­er­wise,
the wine will ­burst the ­skins. Then the
wine and the wine­skins will both be de­
stroyed. No, peo­ple pour new wine into
new wine­skins.”
JESUS IS LORD OF THE SABBATH
DAY
23  One Sab­
bath day ­Jesus was walk­
ing with his dis­ci­ples t ­ hrough the grain­
fields. The dis­ci­ples be­gan to b
­ reak off
some h
­ eads of g ­ rain. 24  The Phar­i­sees
said to ­Jesus, “Look! It is ­against the Law
to do this on the Sab­bath day. Why are
your dis­ci­ples do­ing it?”
25  He an­
swered, “­
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read a ­ bout what Da­vid did? He and his