Bible Chapter Summary
Mark 2 Summary
Healing and Calling Levi
Jesus enters Capernaum and is quickly surrounded by crowds. When a man sick of the palsy is brought to him on a bed by four men who break through the roof, Jesus forgives his sins and commands him to rise and walk, revealing his power to forgive sins on earth. Jesus then calls Levi, a publican, to follow him, and eats with tax collectors and sinners, explaining that he came to call sinners to repentance. He teaches that new wine cannot be put into old bottles, and defends his disciples' plucking grain on the sabbath by asserting that the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.
Key themes
Key verses
Mark 2:10
“But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)”
Mark 2:17
“When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Mark 2:27
“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:”
Mark 2:28
“Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.”
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