Battering Ram (Mark) 2

1 Again He entered Village of Comfort (Capernaum) after some days, and it was noised about that He was in the house.

2 Straightway many gathered, insomuch that there was no room to receive them. So more gathered around the door: and He preached the word to them.

3 Four men came to Him carrying a man who was paralyzed.

4 When they could not come near Him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed where the paralyzed man lay.

5 When I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) saw their faith, He said to the man who was paralyzed: Son, your sins are forgiven.

6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

7 Why does this man speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

8 Immediately I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) perceived in His spirit that they reasoned so within themselves, He said to them: Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

9 Which is easier to say to this paralyzed man? Your sins forgiven; or to say, Arise, take up your bed, and walk?

10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins, (He said to paralyzed man,)

11 I say to you: Arise, and take up your bed, and go your way to your house.

12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out before them all, they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying: We have never seen anything like this before!

13 Then He went out again by the seaside, and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them.

14 As He passed by, He saw Joined To (Levi) the son of Changing (Alphaeus) sitting at the tax booth and said to him: Follow me. And he arose and followed Him.

15 As I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) sat to eat in his house, many publicans and sinners also sat with I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) and His disciples: for there were many, and they followed Him.

16 But when the scribes and The Separate (Pharisees) saw Him eat with publicans and sinners, they asked His disciples: Why does He eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

17 When I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) heard it, He said to them: Those that are whole have no need of the physician, but those that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

18 The disciples of I AM is a Gracious Giver (John) and of The Separate (Pharisees) used to fast: and they came and say to Him: Why do the disciples of I AM is a Gracious Giver (John) and of The Separate (Pharisees) fast, but Your disciples do not fast?

19 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) answered them: Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.

21 No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up tears away from the old, and the hole is made worse.

22 No man puts new wine into old bottles: the new wine will burst the bottles, and the wine would spill, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

23 And it came to pass, that He went through the corn fields on the Sabbath day; and His disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

24 The Separate (Pharisees) said to Him: Look, why are they breaking the law on the Sabbath day?

25 He answered them: Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God in the days of My Father is Great (Abiathar) the high priest, and ate the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat for anyone but the priests, and gave it to those who were with him?

27 Then He said to them: The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:

28 Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.