Mark 2

Treated in 20 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:1 Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and word got around that he was at home. 3
  • 2:5 Jesus saw how they trusted in him, and he said to the paralyzed man, "My child, your sins are forgiven." 3
  • 2:7 "Why does this fellow talk this way? It is blasphemy! Who but God alone can forgive sins?" 2
  • 2:27 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath. 2
  • 2:3 Then some people arrived with a paralyzed man for him, carried by four of them. 1
  • 2:4 The crowd kept them from getting him near Jesus, so they took off part of the roof above where he was. They broke through it and lowered the mat with the paralyzed man lying on it. 1
  • 2:8 At once Jesus knew in his spirit what they were thinking. "Why do you turn these things over in your hearts?" he asked them. 1
  • 2:12 He got up, picked up his mat at once, and walked out while they all watched. They were all astonished and gave glory to God. "We have never seen anything like it!" they said. 1
  • 2:13 Once more he went out along the lakeshore. The whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them. 1
  • 2:14 As he walked along, he caught sight of Levi son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax office. "Follow me," he said to him. He got up and followed him. 1
  • 2:16 Some scribes who were Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, and they asked his disciples, "Why is he eating with tax collectors and sinners?" 1
  • 2:17 Jesus heard it and told them, "People who are well do not need a doctor; sick people do. I came to call sinners, not the righteous." 1
  • 2:23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples made their way along, they started to pick heads of grain. 1
  • 2:28 So the Son of Man is Lord even over the Sabbath." 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Key Teachings of C. S. Lewis · Ochorus Originals

    Who Is This Man? cites Mark 2:1–12

    …as a teacher without bowing to Him as Lord? What would it mean to change that? 3. Read Mark 2:1–12 and notice what the scribes understood Jesus to be claiming. 4. Read one of the Gospels…

  2. The Gospel of Healing · A. B. Simpson

    Scripture Testimonies cites Mark ii. 1

    …requires as great a sacrifice for Him, is not His love worth it all? THE PARALYTIC. Mark ii. 1. This is one of the most remarkable of Christ's healing miracles, because He now, for the…

  3. Tell Me the Story – Book 5: Wonders and Stories · Ochorus Originals

    Through the Roof cites Mark 2:1–12

    …both. And it all started with four friends who wouldn’t give up. Read it in your Bible: Mark 2:1–12 Dear Jesus, thank you that you can forgive sins and that you can heal. Help me to be a…

  4. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    December cites Mark ii. 3

    …life.—Phillips Brooks. December 7 And they came unto Him, bringing one sick of the palsy. Mark ii. 3. Had it not been for the palsy, this man might never have seen Christ!—Selected. December…

  5. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    September cites Mark 2:4

    …when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.” (Mark 2:4) Faith is full of inventions. The house was full, a crowd blocked up the door, but faith…

  6. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Third Stage cites Mark 2:5

    …him with, “Peace be to thee.” So the first said to him, “Thy sins be forgiven thee,” Mark 2:5; the second stripped him of his rags, and clothed him with change of raiment, Zech. 3:4…

  7. Real Questions – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    Wasn’t Jesus Just a Good Teacher? cites Mark 2:5

    …a paralysed friend through a roof, and Jesus said to him, “Son, your sins are forgiven” (Mark 2:5). The religious teachers in the room were horrified: “He is blaspheming! Who can forgive…

  8. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    The Kingdom Is Here cites Mark 2:5

    …Jesus looked at him and said something nobody expected: “Son, your sins are forgiven” (Mark 2:5). The religious teachers were scandalised: “Who can forgive sins but God alone?” (Mark…

  9. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    The Key to Release cites Mark 2:7

    …(set free) are loosed; those you bind, are bound.” “Who can forgive sins but God alone?” (Mark 2:7) asked the Pharisees. In a sense, they were correct because the Lord’s mandate to us does…

  10. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Confession cites Mark ii. 7

    …vii. 19.) The Jews were right when they said, “Who can forgive sins but God only?” (Mark ii. 7.) But must we leave the matter here? Can vile sinners like us ever dare to confess our…

  11. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Deity of Jesus Christ cites Mark 2:8

    …4:16, 19), that He knew the secret thoughts of men, knew all men, knew what was in man (Mark 2:8; Luke 5:22; John 2:24, 25) which knowledge we are distinctly told in 2 Chron. 6:30 and…

  12. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of religious affections by this, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God cites Mark 2:12

    …of this, in the multitude that were present when Christ preached and wrought miracles; Mark 2:12, “And immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch…

  13. Tell Me the Story – Book 5: Wonders and Stories · Ochorus Originals

    The Tax Collector Who Followed cites Mark 2:13–17

    …Hosea (Hosea 6:6). Jesus showed what God had always wanted: mercy. Read it in your Bible: Mark 2:13–17; Matthew 9:9–13 Dear Jesus, thank you that you came for sinners, and that includes me.…

  14. The Key Teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Ochorus Originals

    The Call to Follow cites MARK 2:14

    …at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. MARK 2:14 There is almost nothing in that verse. No account of what Levi was thinking, no…

  15. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Should I Only Have Christian Friends? cites Mark 2:16

    …avoided, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?” (Mark 2:16). Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick” (Mark 2:17).…

  16. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Repentance cites Mark ii. 17

    …Lord; and then doubt about repentance no more. (Heb. vii. 25; Acts v. 31; Luke xix. 10; Mark ii. 17; Matt. xi. 28; John vi. 37; John i. 12.) (b) Hear, for another thing, what glorious…

  17. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

    A Word to My Christian Sisters cites Mark ii. 23

    …to be applied to my throat. My faith laid hold of the precious promises — John xiv. 14; Mark ii. 23 ; xi. 24. At once I ceased trying to join the iron and the clay— the truth of God with…

  18. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 6 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 12 — Made for Rest cites Mark 2:27

    “Then Jesus declared, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.’” — Mark 2:27 (BSB) After six days of creating the whole universe, what did God do on the seventh day?…

  19. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    The Sabbath cites Mark ii. 27

    …God’s merciful appointment for the common benefit of all mankind. It was “made for man.” (Mark ii. 27.) It was given for the good of all classes, for the laity quite as much as for the…

  20. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Mark 2: 28

    …of the week to the first was by Christ’s own appointment. He is ‘Lord of the Sabbath.’ Mark 2: 28. And who shall appoint a day but he who is Lord of it? He made this day. ‘This is the day…