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When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home. See also: Luke 5:18John 4:47Luke 18:35-38Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. See also: Mark 2:13Mark 1:45Luke 5:17Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. See also: Luke 5:18-26Matthew 9:1-8Matthew 4:24When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. See also: Luke 5:19Deuteronomy 22:8Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” See also: Matthew 9:2James 5:15Mark 2:9-10But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, See also: Luke 5:21-22Mark 8:17Matthew 16:7-8“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” See also: Isaiah 43:25Daniel 9:9Micah 7:18Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts? See also: Psalms 139:2John 2:24-25Ezekiel 38:10Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’? See also: Luke 5:22-25Matthew 9:5But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— See also: Daniel 7:13-14Matthew 9:6-8Acts 5:31“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.” See also: Mark 1:41John 6:63John 5:8-10He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” See also: Matthew 9:33Matthew 9:8John 9:32He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. See also: Proverbs 1:20-22Mark 4:1Mark 2:2As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him. See also: Luke 5:27-32Matthew 9:9-13Luke 6:15He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. See also: Luke 15:1Matthew 9:10-11Luke 5:29-30The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” See also: Luke 19:7Luke 19:10Luke 18:11When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” See also: Luke 15:7Matthew 9:12-13Luke 19:10John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?” See also: Matthew 6:18Matthew 9:14-17Luke 18:12Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. See also: Matthew 25:1-10Genesis 29:22Judges 14:10-11But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. See also: Luke 17:22Revelation 21:9Isaiah 62:5No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. See also: Matthew 9:161 Corinthians 10:13Isaiah 57:16No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.” See also: Matthew 9:17Psalms 119:83Luke 5:37-38He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. See also: Deuteronomy 23:24-25Matthew 12:1-8Luke 6:1-5The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?” See also: Exodus 20:10Hebrews 12:3Matthew 12:2He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? See also: 1 Samuel 21:3-6Luke 10:26How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?” See also: 2 Samuel 8:17Leviticus 24:5-91 Samuel 21:1He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. See also: Colossians 2:16Luke 6:9Deuteronomy 5:14Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” See also: Matthew 12:8Revelation 1:10John 9:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Mark 2:2
Ver. 2. Some Greek and Latin copies have, after eight days.
↑ 2Mark 2:4
Ver. 4. Such diligence ought to be used to bring sinners to Christ, by means of the sacraments, as was used to procure for this man, through Christ, the health of his body. B.
↑ 4Mark 2:5
Ver. 5. When Jesus saw their faith. Our Lord is moved to shew mercy to sinners, by the faith and desires, and prayers of others; for this man was not more helpless in his limbs, than in his soul. From this example, we are taught that in sickness the sacraments and helps of the Church, which are the medicines of the soul, should be called for in the first instance; for Christ first healed the sick man's soul, before he removed his bodily infirmity. We also learn that many diseases originate in sin, and that we are to remove the effect by removing the cause.
↑ 5Mark 2:10
Ver. 10. The Son of man. Jesus Christ here proveth that himself as man, and not as God only, hath power to forgive sins; by this, that he was able to do miracles, and make the sick man suddenly rise; so the apostles and their successors, though they be not God, may in like manner have authority from God to remit sins, not as God, but as God's ministers, and acting in his name, and vested with his delegated authority. — On earth. This power which the Son of man hath to remit sins on earth, was never taken from him, but is perpetuated in his sacraments and ministers, by whom he still remitteth sins in the Church, and not in heaven only. Relative to sin, there is one court of conscience on earth, and another in heaven, and the judgment of heaven followeth and approveth this on earth; as is plain by the words of our Saviour, to Peter first, and then to all the apostles: Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall by bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. See Matt. xvi. 19. and xviii. 18.
Whereupon S. Jerom sayeth: that priests having the keys of the kingdom of heaven, judge in some manner before the day of judgment. Ep. v. ad Heliod; and S. Chrys. more at large, l. iii. de Sacerd.
↑ 10Mark 2:12
Ver. 12. This paralytic is not the same as that mentioned in S. John; for that distressed man had no one to assist him, whereas this person had four; the former was by the side of the Probatica, but the latter in a house at Capharnaum. Theophy.
↑ 12Mark 2:14
Ver. 14. To follow Christ, is to imitate him; wherefore this apostle, that he might be able to follow Christ, the model of poverty, not so much by his bodily steps, as by the inward affections of his soul, forsook all; he not only forsook his present goods, but despised all danger, which he incurred by leaving his business abruptly, and without rendering any account of it to his employers or governors. Ven. Bede. — The person to whom Christ addresses the words, follow me, was Matthew: see infra ix. 9.
↑ 14Mark 2:17
Ver. 17. The Greek printed copies, and some MSS. add to penance, as we read in Luke v. 33.
↑ 17Mark 2:18
Ver. 18. See Matt. ix. 14, and Luke v. 33.
↑ 18Mark 2:20
Ver. 20. Jesus Christ here foretelleth that fasting shall be used in his Church, no less than in the old law, or in the time of John the Baptist. See Matt. ix. 15.
— When first we begin to be converted to God, the spiritual consolations which God infuses into our souls, cause in us an overflowing of spiritual delights, so that we then feast, and are in the midst of delight; but when the Bridegroom shall be taken away, when these spiritual consolations cease, then we fast, and find the commandments difficult. It is then we must prepare ourselves for tribulation. Ven. Bede.
↑ 20Mark 2:25
Ver. 25. When he had need. In necessity many things are done without sin, which in other circumstances it would be unlawful to do. B.
↑ 25Mark 2:26
Ver. 26. Under Abiathar. The priest from whom David had these loaves, is called Achimelech, 1 K. xxi. The most probable answer to this difficulty is, that the priest had both these names of Achimelech and of Abiathar, as also his father had before him. For he that (1 K. xxii.) is called Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, is called 2 K. viii. 17, Achimelech, the son of Abiathar. See also 1
Par. xviii. 16. Wi. — Others say that Abiathar, son of Achimelech, was present, and sanctioned the deed of his father, thus making it his own. Dion. Carth.
↑ 26Mark 2:28
Ver. 28. The maker of the law may abrogate or dispense with it when and where, for just cause, it seemeth good to him: thus the Church can dispense with, change, or abrogate, for just reasons, the discipline of the Church founded upon Church authority. This we prove also from the action of David, (v. 26, supra) which the Scripture notices without blaming it, because the observance of the law, prescribed for the utility of man, must yield to the necessities of man.
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↑ 28License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses