Thematic Bible
Mark 2:1 (show verse)
When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.
Mark 2:2 (show verse)
And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.
Mark 2:3 (show verse)
Mark 2:4 (show verse)
Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
Mark 2:5 (show verse)
And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Mark 2:6 (show verse)
But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
Mark 2:7 (show verse)
“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Mark 2:8 (show verse)
Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?
Mark 2:9 (show verse)
Mark 2:10 (show verse)
Mark 2:11 (show verse)
Mark 2:12 (show verse)
And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”
Mark 2:13 (show verse)
And He went out again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.
Mark 2:14 (show verse)
Mark 2:15 (show verse)
And it *happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.
Mark 2:16 (show verse)
When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”
Mark 2:17 (show verse)
And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:18 (show verse)
Mark 2:19 (show verse)
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.
Mark 2:20 (show verse)
Mark 2:21 (show verse)
Mark 2:22 (show verse)
Mark 2:23 (show verse)
Mark 2:24 (show verse)
The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
Mark 2:25 (show verse)
And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;
Mark 2:26 (show verse)
Mark 2:27 (show verse)
Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.