Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Mark 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

(Mat 9:2–8; Luk 5:17–26 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:1 - And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:2 - And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:3 - And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:4 - And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:5 - And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:6 - Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:7 - “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:8 - And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:9 - Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:10 - But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:11 - “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:12 - And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

Jesus Calls Levi

(Mat 9:9–13; Luk 5:27–32 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:13 - He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:14 - And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:15 - And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:16 - And the scribes of[fn] the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat[fn] with tax collectors and sinners?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:17 - And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

A Question About Fasting

(Mat 9:14–17; Luk 5:33–39 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:18 - Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:19 - And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:20 - The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:21 - No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:22 - And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”[fn]

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

(Mat 12:1–8; Luk 6:1–5 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:23 - One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:24 - And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:25 - And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:26 - how he entered the house of God, in the time of[fn] Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:27 - And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:28 - So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Some manuscripts and
Some manuscripts add and drink
Some manuscripts omit But new wine is for fresh wineskins
Or in the passage about
ESV

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Mark Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras