Mark 2 (CNT) — Codex Sacra

¹ And entering again into Kapharnaoum, for days it was heard that He is in a house. ² And many had gathered together so as no longer to have space, not even there by the door, and He spoke the Word to them. ³ And they come bringing to Him a paralytic being carried by four men. ⁴ And not being able to bring him forth to Him because of the crowd, they had taken off the roof where He was, and digging through lowered the cot upon which the paralytic laid. ⁵ And Yahshua seeing their faith says to the paralytic: "Child, your errors are remitted!" ⁶ Now there were some scribes sitting there and debating in their hearts ⁷ "Who is He that He speaks thusly? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive errors except One, God?" ⁸ And immediately Yahshua knowing in His Spirit that they debate among themselves thusly says to them: "Why do you debate these things in your hearts? ⁹ What is easier, to say to the paralytic 'Your errors are remitted', or to say 'Arise and take up your cot and walk'? ¹⁰ But in order that you would know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive errors upon the earth..." (He says to the paralytic:) ¹¹ "...I say to you, Arise, taking your cot and go to your house!" ¹² And he arose and immediately taking the cot he went out before them all, so as for all to be astounded and to extol Yahweh, saying that "We have not ever seen so much!" ¹³ And He went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came with Him, and He taught them. ¹⁴ And going by He saw Levei the son of Alphaios sitting at the tax-office, and He says to him "Follow Me!" And arising he followed Him. ¹⁵ And it comes to pass upon His reclining in his house that many tax collectors and wrongdoers were reclining together with Yahshua and His students. There were many indeed, and they followed Him. ¹⁶ And the scribes of the Pharisees seeing that He eats with the wrongdoers and tax-collectors said to His students that "He eats with tax collectors and wrongdoers?" ¹⁷ And hearing it Yahshua says to them that "The strong have no need of a physician, but the sick do have. I have not come to call the righteous, but wrongdoers!" ¹⁸ And the students of Iohannes and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to Him: "For what reason do the students of Iohannes and the students of the Pharisees fast, but Your students do not fast?" ¹⁹ And Yahshua said to them: "Are the sons of the bridechamber able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? For as long a time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast. ²⁰ But the days shall come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then shall they fast in that day! ²¹ No one sews a patch of uncarded cloth upon an old garment, but if it is, the new lifts its borders away from the old and the tear becomes worse. ²² And no one puts new wine into old skins, but if it is, the wine breaks the skins and the wine and the skins are lost. Rather, new wine is for new skins." ²³ And it came to pass for Him on the Sabbaths to be passing through the planted fields, and His students began to make a path, plucking the grain. ²⁴ And the Pharisees said to Him: "Look, why do they do on the Sabbaths that which is not lawful?" ²⁵ And He says to them: "Have you not ever read what David did when he had need and he himself had hungered, and those with him, ²⁶ how he entered into the house of Yahweh at the time of Abiathar the high priest and he ate the bread of presentation, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and he gave it also to those being with him?" ²⁷ And He said to them: "The Sabbath was for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the Sabbath! ²⁸ Therefore the Son of Man is Prince of the Sabbath!"