NIV Adventure Bible Adventure Bible Back to School Activities | Page 10

1096
Mark 1–2
36  Si­mon and his com­pan­ions went to look
for him, 37  and when they ­found him, they
ex­claimed: “Ev­ery­one is look­ing for you!”
38  Jesus re­plied, “Let us go some­w here
else — ​to the near­by vil­lag­e s — ​so I can
p reach ­there also. That is why I have
come.” 39  So he trav­eled through­out Gal­
i­lee, preach­i ng in ­t heir syn­a­gogues and
driv ­ing out de­mons.
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
40  A man with lep­ro­sy  a came to him and
­ egged him on his ­k nees, “If you are will­
b
ing, you can make me clean.”
41  Jesus was in­d ig ­nant.  b He ­reached out
his hand and ­touched the man. “I am will­
ing,” he said. “Be c ­ lean!” 42  Im­me­di­ate­ly the
lep­ro­sy left him and he was cleansed.
43  Jesus sent him away at once with a
­ on’t tell
­strong warn­i ng: 44  “See that you d
this to any­one. But go, show your­self to the
­priest and of ­fer the sac­r i ­f ic­es that Mo­ses
com­mand­ed for your cleans­ing, as a tes­t i­
mo­ny to them.” 45  In­stead he went out and
be­gan to talk free­ly, spread­ing the news.
As a re­sult, ­Jesus ­c ould no lon­ger en­ter
a town open­ly but ­stayed out­side in lone­
ly plac­es. Yet the peo­ple ­still came to him
from ev­ery ­where.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
2
A few days lat­er, when J ­ esus a ­ gain en­
tered Ca­p er ­n a­u m, the peo­ple ­heard
that he had come home. 2  They gath­ered
in such ­large num­bers that ­there was no
room left, not even out­side the door, and
House Roofs
he ­preached the word to them. 3  Some men
came, bring­ing to him a par­a ­lyzed man,
car­r ied by four of them. 4  Since they c ­ ould
not get him to J ­ esus be­cause of the c ­ rowd,
they made an open­ing in the roof ­above
Jesus by dig­g ing t ­ hrough it and then low­
ered the mat the man was ly­ing on. 5  When
Jesus saw ­their ­faith, he said to the par­a ­
lyzed man, “Son, your sins are for­g iv­en.”
6  Now some teach­ers of the law were sit­
ting ­t here, think­ing to them­selves, 7  “Why
does this fel­low talk like that? He’s blas­
phem­ing! Who can for­g ive sins but God
alone?”
8  Im ­me­d i­a te­l y ­Jesus knew in his spir ­it
that this was what they were think­ing in
their ­hearts, and he said to them, “Why are
you think­ing ­these ­things? 9  Which is eas­i­
er: to say to this par­a­lyzed man, ‘Your sins
are for­g iv­en,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your
mat and walk’? 10  But I want you to know
that the Son of Man has au­thor­i­t y on e ­ arth
to for­give sins.” So he said to the man, 11  “I
tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
12  He got up, took his mat and ­walked out in
full view of them all. This ­a mazed ev­ery­one
and they ­praised God, say­ing, “We have
nev­er seen any­thing like this!”
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
13  Once a
­ gain ­Jesus went out be­side the
lake. A ­large ­c rowd came to him, and he
a  40  The Greek word traditionally translated
leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the
skin.    b  41  Many manuscripts Jesus was filled with
compassion   
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.