MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after a few days and it was heard that he was at a house.
2:2 And immediately many were gathered together, so-that it was no longer possible to make room, not even at the door and he spoke the word to them.

2:3 And they come, carrying to him a paralytic, lifted up by four men.
2:4 And when they were not able to draw near to him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where he was. And having dug out a hole in it, they lowered the pallet upon which the paralytic lay.
2:5 And seeing their faith, Jesus says to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven you.

2:6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
2:7 Why is this man speaking blasphemies so? Who is able to forgive sins except one, our God?

2:8 And immediately Jesus, fully knowing in his spirit that they reason so with themselves, said to them, Why are you* reasoning these things in your* hearts?
2:9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you; or to say, Arise and lift up your pallet and walk?
2:10 But that* you* may know that the Son of Man has authority upon the earth to forgive sins (he says to the paralytic),
2:11 I say to you, Arise and lift up your pallet and go to your house.

2:12 And he immediately arose and having lifted up the pallet, went out before them all; so-that they were all astonished and glorified God, saying, We never* saw this happen so.
{Mk 2:13-14 & Mt 9:9 & Lk 5:27-28 At or near Capernaum.}

2:13 And he went forth again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him and he taught them.
2:14 And passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office and he says to him, Follow me. And he stood up and followed him.
{Mk 2:15-22 & Mt 9:10-17 & Lk 5:29-39 Capernaum.}

2:15 And it happened, while he was reclining at a meal in his house, many tax collectors and sinners also reclined with Jesus and his disciples; for* there were many and they followed him.
2:16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, Why is it that he is eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?

2:17 And when Jesus heard it, he says to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

2:18 And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

2:19 And Jesus said to them, The {F} sons of the bridal-party are not able to fast while the bridegroom is with them, are they? Inasmuch time as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast.
2:20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them and then they will fast in those days.
2:21 And no one sews a patch of unshrunk fabric upon an old garment; otherwise its fullness shrinks and lifts the new patch away from the old one and a worse split happens.
2:22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is poured out and the wineskins will be destroyed, but they put new wine into new wineskins.
{Jn 5:1-47 Jerusalem probably the Passover} {Mk 2:23-28 & Mt 12:1-8 & Lk 6:1-5 Jerusalem to Galilee.}

2:23 And it happened, that he was traveling on the Sabbath day through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make* their way plucking the tops.
2:24 And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why are they doing what is not legal on the Sabbath day?

2:25 And he said to them, Have you* never* read what David did, when he had need and was hungry? He and those who were with him?
2:26 How he entered into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high-priest and ate the showbread, which is not legal to eat, except for the priests and he also gave it to those who were with him? {1Sam. 21:6}
2:27 And he said to them, The Sabbath came* to be because of man and not man because of the Sabbath;
2:28 so-then the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.
{Footnotes: Mk 2:19- That is: companions or guests.}
{Mk 3:1-6 & Mt 12:9-14 & Lk 6:6-11 Probably Galilee.}