Oct 23 2009
Text from Mark for October 25
Below is the text we will be reviewing this Sunday
1:40-45 Jesus heals a man with a skin disease
And a man with scale-disease came up to him, pleading with him and saying, “If you want to, you are able to cleanse me.” and he, becoming incensed, stretched out his hand and touched him and said, “I do want to; be cleansed!” And immediately the scale-disease left him, and he was cleansed. And Jesus, growling at him, immediately cast him out and said to him, “See that you don’t say anything to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer for our cleansing what Moses commanded, as a witness to them.” But he went out and bean to proclaim it all over and to spread the news abroad, so that Jesus was no longer able to go into a city openly, but had to remain out in deserted places. And the people came to him from everywhere.
2:1-12 Jesus heals a paralytic
And he returned several days later to Capernaum, and it was rumored that he was at home. And many people gathered together there, so that there was no room even in front of the door, and he was speaking the word to them. And a paralytic was brought to him, carried by four of his friends; and not being able to reach him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where he was, and digging through they lowered the pallet upon which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”
But some of the scribes were sitting there and pondering in their hearts: “Why does this man speak in this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except One, that is, God?” And Jesus, immediately recognizing in his spirit that they were pondering within themselves in this way, said to them, “Why are you pondering in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take up your pallet, and walk!’? But so that you may know that upon earth the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins” - he said to the paralytic: “I say to you, get up, take up your pallet, and go to your house!” And he got up, and immediately he took up his pallet and went out in front of them all, so that they all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like it!”
