MARKed part 3
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1 And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
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Jesus returned to Capernaum after many months after many months of preaching throughout Galilee.
His preaching tour lasted about a year.
This is better translated, “He was at home.” This was likely Peter’s home, where Jesus had taken up temporary residence
In the freedom of Jewish custom many uninvited people crowded into the house and around the door, thus preventing access. Jesus was speaking the Word to them.
2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.
Jesus continued in His primary mission: “ He preached the Word to them “
No doubt some had come to get a need met or to be healed Some may have come just out of curisty as well but Jesus remained consistant with the main work of God
The good news of the gospel, that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, for the forgiveness of sins.Whether this event took place in His own house (“He was at home,” NASB), or Peter’s house, is not made clear. Since hospitality is one of the basic laws of the East, the people of Capernaum did not wait for an invitation but simply came to the house in droves.
This meant that some of the truly needy people could not get close enough to Jesus to receive His help.
However, four friends of a palsied man decided to lower their friend through the roof, trusting that Jesus would heal him; and Jesus did. This miracle of healing gave our Lord the opportunity to teach an important lesson about forgiveness
MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1460). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.
3 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
Since he was lying on a bed, the man’s paralysis was severe—perhaps he was a quadriplegic.
He is totally immobile, confined to a stretcher.
It’s a very dangerous thing to do life alone
Who is carrying you ? and where are they taking you ?
Its very Obvious they really cared for this man, given the extremes that they went through to bring him to Jesus
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4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
Most homes in Palestine had flat roofs used for relaxation in the cool of the day and for sleeping on hot nights. And there was usually an external stairway that extended to the roof. Often, as here, the roof was made of slabs of burnt or dried clay that were placed on supporting beams which stretched from wall to wall.
The builder then spread a uniform coat of fresh, wet clay over those slabs of hardened clay to serve as a seal against the rain. The paralytic’s friends took him up to the top of such a house and dug out the top coat of clay, removing several of the slabs until they made enough room to lower him down into Jesus’ presence. the paralytic.
Consider this scene through the eyes of the Lord Jesus. When He looked up, He saw the four men on the roof with their sick friend. Houses had flat roofs which were usually accessible by means of an outside stairway. It would not be difficult to remove the tiles, laths, and grass that comprised the roof and make an opening large enough to fit their friend through on his mat.
Don’t allow anyone or anything stop you from getting to Jesus
Don’t confuse Christ with his followers
5 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
The aggressive, persistent effort of the paralytic’s friends was visible evidence of their faith in Christ to heal. “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” Many Jews in that day believed that all disease and affliction was a direct result of one’s sins. This paralytic may have believed that as well; thus he would have welcomed forgiveness of his sins before healing.
The Gr. verb for “are forgiven” refers to sending or driving away
Thus Jesus dismissed the man’s sin and freed him from the guilt of it
1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
Your most obvious need may not be your most important need.
6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
7 “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”
12 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
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13 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.
14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
15 And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
We must learn the art of maintaining our personal purity all while showing maintaining a fellowship of mercy with unbelievers
16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
When I’m following Jesus There is nothing in my past that can keep me from experiencing present and future blessings
My reputation has no bearings on my redemption
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Religion births frustration while a relationship with Christ should bring joy
21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
23 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
Religion brings with it rules, regulations and burdens while a relationship with Christ is liberating
25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:
26 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”
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27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
