What does Mark 2:6 mean?

In a crowded house in Capernaum, listening to Jesus teach, are scribes and Pharisees from Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem (Luke 5:17). In the Old Testament, scribes were responsible for recording the official records of military leaders, kings, and prophets (Jeremiah 36:4). Ezra was both a scribe and a priest (Ezra 7:6, 11). After the return from Babylon, scribes took more initiative, copying, translating, and teaching the Law of Moses. Because of their level of literacy and time studying the Torah, they were considered the educated class and authorities on religious matters. It is because of the scribes that we can be sure the Old Testament has been passed down complete and accurate.

Unfortunately, over time, scribes had also added to the Law, an expansion which often leads to arguments with Jesus. By this time, scribes are a subsect of the Pharisees. They monitor Jesus out of curiosity and to see if He teaches as they do. It is their job to question teaching, but it is also their job to know the Scriptures regarding the Messiah. The scribes so dissect, tear apart, and define their Scriptures that they miss what the Messiah is all about. And in their fear that the people's disobedience will prevent the Messiah from coming, they add so many rules that when Jesus the Messiah does come, He seems to them a blasphemous law-breaker and not the Chosen One of God.

Eventually, the scribes will play a major role in Jesus' crucifixion. The people who should have been best-equipped to identify the Messiah are party to His death.