Mark 2:20
The Scripture
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Mark 2 recounts a cluster of early conflicts, beginning with four men lowering a paralyzed friend through the roof of a crowded house in Capernaum, where Jesus first forgives the man's sins-drawing blasphemy charges from the scribes-and then heals him to prove the Son of Man's authority. He calls the tax collector Levi to follow him and eats with publicans and sinners, prompting the Pharisees to question his disciples, and he answers that the well need no physician. The chapter closes with disputes over fasting, where Jesus speaks of the new cloth and new wineskins, and over the Sabbath as his hungry disciples pluck grain and he declares himself Lord of the Sabbath.
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Psalms 45:11Song of Solomon 3:11Isaiah 54:5Isaiah 62:5John 3:29II Corinthians 11:2Revelation 19:7Revelation 21:9Zechariah 13:7Matthew 26:31John 7:33John 7:34