Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Mark | Page 3

did not come to appeal to
the righteous, but to sinners." 002:018 (Now John's disciples and those
of the Pharisees were keeping a fast.) And they came and asked Him,
"How is it that John's disciples and those of the Pharisees are fasting,
and yours are not?" 002:019 "Can a wedding party fast while the
bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the
bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible. 002:020 But a time will
come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they
will fast. 002:021 No one mends an old garment with a piece of
unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--
the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made. 002:022 And
no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine would
burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine needs
fresh skins!" 002:023 One Sabbath He was walking through the
wheatfields when His disciples began to pluck the ears of wheat as they
went. 002:024 So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing
what on the Sabbath is unlawful?" 002:025 "Have you never read,"
Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his
men were hungry: 002:026 how he entered the house of God in the
High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none
but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"
002:027 And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath; 002:028 so that the Son of Man is Lord even of
the Sabbath." 003:001 At another time, when He went to the synagogue,
there was a man there with one arm shrivelled up. 003:002 They
closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him on the
Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him. 003:003 "Come

forward," said He to the man with the shrivelled arm. 003:004 Then He
asked them, "Are we allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil?
to save a life, or to destroy one?" They remained silent. 003:005
Grieved and indignant at the hardening of their hearts, He looked round
on them with anger, and said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." He
stretched it out, and the arm was completely restored. 003:006 But no
sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a
consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of
destroying Him. 003:007 Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His
disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed
Him; 003:008 and from Judaea and Jerusalem and Idumaea and from
beyond the Jordan and from the district of Tyre and Sidon there came
to Him a vast crowd, hearing of all that He was doing. 003:009 So He
gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant
attendance on Him because of the throng-- to prevent their crushing
Him. 003:010 For He had cured many of the people, so that all who had
any ailments pressed upon Him, to touch Him. 003:011 And the foul
spirits, whenever they saw Him, threw themselves down at His feet,
screaming out: "You are the Son of God." 003:012 But He many a time
checked them, forbidding them to say who He was. 003:013 Then He
went up the hill; and those whom He Himself chose He called, and they
came to Him. 003:014 He appointed twelve of them, that they might be
with Him, and that He might also send them to proclaim His Message,
003:015 with authority to expel the demons. 003:016 These twelve
were Simon (to whom He gave the surname of Peter), 003:017 James
the son of Zabdi and John the brother of James (these two He surnamed
Boanerges, that is `Sons of Thunder'), 003:018 Andrew, Philip,
Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananaean, 003:019 and Judas Iscariot, the man
who also betrayed Him. 003:020 And He went into a house. But again
the crowd assembled, so that there was no opportunity for them even to
snatch a meal. 003:021 Hearing of this, His relatives came to seize Him
by force, for they said, "He is out of his mind." 003:022 The Scribes,
too, who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Baal-zebul in
him; and it is by the power of the Prince of the demons that he expels
the demons." 003:023 So He called them to Him, and using figurative
language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to

expel Satan? 003:024 For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing
can make that kingdom last; 003:025 and if