Mark 2

Which worship songs are based on Mark 2?

  1. I'm Cured — ApologetiX (2010) Mark 2:1-12

    The song explicitly identifies Mark's account and retells the transport of a paralyzed man, the opening of the roof, and his lowering before Jesus. His forgiveness and restored ability to stand are central to both the passage and the song; the proposed roof repairs are a comic addition.

  2. It's a Miracle — VeggieTales (2009) Mark 2:1-12

    The opening retells Jesus healing a paralyzed man lowered through a roof into a house in Capernaum. The setting, unusual entrance, and restoration of the man's ability to walk specifically identify this account.

  3. Jesus Is In The House — 11th Hour (2014) Mark 2:1-5

    The opening retells the account of a paralyzed man whose companions open a roof because the crowd prevents them from reaching Jesus inside the house. The chorus develops that specific roof-opening event into a metaphor for overcoming obstacles to seeking Jesus.

  4. Tear Off the Roof — Brandon Lake (2023) Mark 2:1-12

    The roof being opened to bring someone to Jesus for healing unmistakably recalls the paralytic whose friends lowered him through the roof of a crowded house.

  5. TEAR OFF THE ROOF (REMIX) — Brandon Lake (2024) Mark 2:3-5

    The roof-removal imagery evokes the friends who opened the roof above Jesus and lowered a paralyzed man into the crowded house so that he could be healed.

  6. IT’S UP — Tedashii (2023) Mark 2:5-12

    The description of paralysis, release from sin, healing, and carrying away the former sickbed closely follows Jesus’ healing of the paralytic, where forgiveness and restored movement are joined.

  7. Sick — Barren Cross (2012) Mark 2:17

    The doctor who ends the offender’s spiritual sickness evokes Jesus’ comparison of his mission to sinners with a physician’s care for the sick. The subsequent prayer for forgiveness and salvation reinforces this image of Christ as the physician.

  8. Truth Be Told — Matthew West (2020) Mark 2:17

    The hospital imagery and pairing of sick people with sinners closely paraphrase Jesus’ comparison of sinners to patients who need a physician. The song applies Jesus’ saying to the kind of community the church should be.

  9. Things are Not Okay — Jon Thurlow (2013) Mark 2:20

    The opening closely reproduces Jesus’ prediction that his disciples will fast when the bridegroom is taken away. The reference to fasting on that day most closely matches Mark’s wording; the song applies this image to longing for Jesus’ return.

  10. New Wine — Hillsong Worship (2018) Mark 2:22

    The repeated new-wine imagery, joined to the prayer that the worshipper be remade as a vessel, unmistakably recalls Jesus’ teaching that new wine requires a fitting new container rather than an old wineskin.

  11. GOD TAKES BREAKS — Forrest Frank (2024) Mark 2:27

    The claim that God instituted rest for humanity's benefit closely paraphrases Jesus' teaching that the Sabbath was made for humankind.

Mark 2 (King James Version)

1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.

14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.