Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Mark | Page 2

issues orders and they obey him!" 001:028
And His fame spread at once everywhere in all that part of Galilee.
001:029 Then on leaving the synagogue they came at once, with James
and John, to the house of Simon and Andrew. 001:030 Now Simon's
mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they
informed Him about her. 001:031 So He went to her, and taking her
hand He raised her to her feet: the fever left her, and she began to wait
upon them. 001:032 When it was evening, after sunset people came
bringing Him all who were sick and the demoniacs; 001:033 and the
whole town was assembled at the door. 001:034 Then He cured
numbers of people who were ill with various diseases, and He drove
out many demons; not allowing the demons to speak, because they
knew who He was. 001:035 In the morning He rose early, while it was
still quite dark, and leaving the house He went away to a solitary place
and there prayed. 001:036 And Simon and the others searched
everywhere for Him. 001:037 When they found Him they said, "Every
one is looking for you." 001:038 "Let us go elsewhere, to the
neighbouring country towns," He replied, "that I may proclaim my

Message there also; because for that purpose I came from God."
001:039 And He went through all Galilee, preaching in the synagogues
and expelling the demons. 001:040 One day there came a leper to Jesus
entreating Him, and pleading on his knees. "If you are willing," he said,
"you are able to cleanse me." 001:041 Moved with pity Jesus reached
out His hand and touched him. "I am willing," He said; "be cleansed."
001:042 The leprosy at once left him, and he was cleansed. 001:043
Jesus at once sent him away, strictly charging him, 001:044 and saying,
"Be careful not to tell any one, but go and show yourself to the Priest,
and for your purification present the offerings that Moses appointed as
evidence for them." 001:045 But the man, when he went out, began to
tell every one and to publish the matter abroad, so that it was no longer
possible for Jesus to go openly into any town; but He had to remain
outside in unfrequented places, where people came to Him from all
parts. 002:001 After some days He entered Capernaum again, and it
soon became known that He was at home; 002:002 and such numbers
of people came together that there was no longer room for them even
round the door. He was speaking His Message to them, 002:003 when
there came a party of people bringing a paralytic-- four men carrying
him. 002:004 Finding themselves unable, however, to bring him to
Jesus because of the crowd, they untiled the roof just over His head,
and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the
paralytic was lying. 002:005 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the
paralytic, "My son, your sins are pardoned." 002:006 Now there were
some of the Scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts. 002:007
"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming.
Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?" 002:008 At once
perceiving by His spirit that they were reasoning within themselves,
Jesus asked them, "Why do you thus argue in your minds? 002:009
Which is easier?--to say to this paralytic, `Your sins are pardoned,' or to
say, `Rise, take up your mat, and walk?' 002:010 But that you may
know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins"--He
turned to the paralytic, and said, 002:011 "To you I say, `Rise, take up
your mat and go home.'" 002:012 The man rose, and immediately under
the eyes of all took up his mat and went out, so that they were all filled
with astonishment, gave the glory to God, and said, "We never saw
anything like this." 002:013 Again He went out to the shore of the Lake,

and the whole multitude kept coming to Him, and He taught them.
002:014 And as He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting
at the Toll Office, and said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and
followed Him. 002:015 When He was sitting at table in Levi's house, a
large number of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners were at table with
Jesus and His disciples; for there were many such who habitually
followed Him. 002:016 But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw
Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His
disciples, "He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and
sinners!" 002:017 Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the
healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I