2:1 And he again entered into Capernaum after several days, and it was heard that he was in a house.
2:2 And immediately many were gathered together, so-then it was no longer possible to make room, not even next to the door, and he was speaking the word to them.
2:3 And they come, carrying to him a paralytic, lifted up by four men.
2:4 And not being able to draw near to him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where he was. And they shoveled a hole in it, and lower the pallet upon which the paralytic was laying.
2:5 Now Jesus saw their faith {Or: belief; and throughout the N.T.}
and says to the paralytic, Child, your sins have been forgiven to you.
2:6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
2:7 Why is this man speaking blasphemies so? Who is able to forgive sins except one, our God?
2:8 And immediately Jesus, having fully known in his spirit that they reason so in themselves, said to them, Why are you* reasoning these things in your* hearts?
2:9 What is easier to say to the paralytic, Your sins have been forgiven; or to say, Lift yourself up, and take up your pallet and walk?
2:10 But in order that you* may know that the Son of Man has authority upon the earth to forgive sins (he says to the paralytic),
2:11 I say to you, Lift yourself up, and take up pallet and proceed away to your house.
2:12 And he immediately arose, and having lifted up the pallet, went out in front of them all; so-then for all to be astonished and to glorify God, saying, We never saw this happen so.
{Mar 2:13-14 & Mat 9:9 & Luk 5:27-28 At or near Capernaum.}
2:13 And he went forth again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him and he was teaching them.
2:14 And passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and he says to him, Follow me. And he stood up and followed him.
{Mar 2:15-22 & Mat 9:10-17 & Luk 5:29-39 Capernaum.}
2:15 And it happened, while* he reclined at a meal in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were also reclining together with Jesus and his disciples; for* there were many, and they followed him.
2:16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, were saying to his disciples, Why is it that he is eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?
2:17 And after Jesus heard it, he says to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
2:18 And the disciples of John, and those of the Pharisees, were fasting, and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?
2:19 And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridal-party {companions or guests} are not able to fast at which time the bridegroom is with them, are they? Inasmuch time as they have the bridegroom with themselves, they are not able to fast.
2:20 But the days will come, whenever the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will be fasting in those days.
2:21 And no one sews a patch of unshrunk fabric upon an old garment; otherwise its fullness shrinks and lifts the new patch away from the old one and a worse split happens.
2:22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine is poured out and the wineskins will be destroyed, but put new wine into new wineskins.
{Joh 5:1-47 Jerusalem probably the Passover.}
{Mar 2:23-28 & Mat 12:1-8 & Luk 6:1-5 Jerusalem to Galilee.}
2:23 And he happened to travel on the Sabbath through the grain-fields, and his disciples began to make* their way plucking the tops.
2:24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, Behold, why are they doing* what is not legal on the Sabbath?
2:25 And he said to them, Did you* never read what David did*, when he himself and those with him had need and being hungry?
2:26 How he entered into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high-priest and ate the showbread, which is not legal to eat, except for the priests, and he also gave it to those who being together with him? {1Sam 21:6}
2:27 And he said to them, The Sabbath came* to be because of man and not man because of the Sabbath;
2:28 so-then, the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.
{Mar 3:1-6 & Mat 12:9-14 & Luk 6:6-11 Probably Galilee.}