路加福音 5
1 有一天，耶稣站在革尼撒勒湖边，众人簇拥着他，希望聆听上帝之道。
Now it happened, while the people were crowding around Jesus and listening to the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
2 耶稣看见两只船停在湖边，渔夫离开船去洗网了。
He saw two boats pulled up by the edge of the lake. The fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
3 他走上西门的那只船，请他撑船到离岸不远的水面，然后坐下，在船上教导众人。
Jesus got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put it out in the water a short distance from the land. Then he sat down and taught the people out of the boat.
4 教导结束后，他对西门说：“把船划到水更深的地方，下网打鱼吧！”
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Take the boat out into the deeper water and let down your nets for a catch.”
5 西门说：“老师，我们整夜劳苦工作却一无所获，不过我愿听从你，我会撒网。”
Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked all night, and caught nothing, but at your word, I will let down the nets.”
6 西门撒网后捞上很多鱼，几乎将网撑裂。
When they had done this, they gathered a very large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.
7 于是他叫来另外那只船上的同伴来帮忙，他们捞上来的鱼把两只船装满了，甚至压得船开始下沉。
So they motioned to their partners in the other boat that they should come and help them. They came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
8 西门（彼得）看见这番情景，就跪在耶稣面前说：“主啊，你不能靠近我，因为我是个罪人。”
But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
9 因为他和身边其他人一样，完全被刚才捕捞上来的鱼数量惊住了。
For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken.
10 西庇太的儿子雅各和约翰是西门的打鱼同伴，他们也有同样的感觉。耶稣对西门说：“不要怕！从现在起，你就要成为收获人的渔夫了。”
This included James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid, because from now on you will catch men.”
11 这几名渔夫把两只船靠上岸后，便放下一切跟随耶稣。
When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
12 有一次，耶稣来到一个城中，一名严重的麻风病人看到他，就伏倒将脸贴在地上，求他说：“主啊！如果你愿意，就治愈我。”
It came about that while he was in one of the cities, a man full of leprosy was there. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
13 耶稣伸手触碰他，说：“我愿意，治愈吧！”于是这个人的麻风病立刻好了。
Then Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
14 耶稣嘱咐他：“不要告诉其他人，去给祭司看看，然后照着摩西所说的，为你的治愈进行献祭，向大家作证。”
He instructed him to tell no one, but told him, “Go on your way, and show yourself to the priest and offer a sacrifice for your cleansing, according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
15 但关于耶稣的消息却传得越来越远，大量的民众来到这里聆听耶稣教导，希望他能治愈他们的疾病。
But the report about him spread even farther, and large crowds of people came together to hear him teach and to be healed of their sicknesses.
16 但耶稣却经常躲到安静的地方祷告。
But he often withdrew into the deserted places and prayed.
17 有一天，耶稣正在教导众人之时，人群中有法利赛人和宗教老师，他们来自加利利和犹太的乡村以及耶路撒冷。因为主的力量与耶稣同在，所以他可以治愈病患。
It came about on one of those days that he was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there who had come from many different villages in the regions of Galilee and Judea, and also from the town of Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal.
18 几个人用床抬着一个瘫痪之人，想送他到耶稣跟前。
Now some men came, carrying on a mat a man that was paralyzed, and they looked for a way to bring him inside in order to lay him down in front of Jesus.
19 但因为这里的人实在太多，无法挤进房间，于是他们爬上房顶，在屋瓦中挖了一个洞，将患者和垫子通过洞放了下来，正好落在人群中耶稣的面前。
They could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, so they went up to the housetop and let the man down through the tiles, on his mat, into the midst of the people, right in front of Jesus.
20 耶稣看出了他们对他的信任，于是说：“你们的罪被宽恕了。”
Seeing their faith, Jesus said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21 于是宗教老师和法利赛人开始议论：“这人是谁？竟然会说如此亵渎上帝之语？除了上帝，谁能宽恕罪过？”
The scribes and the Pharisees began to question this, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 耶稣知道他们正在讨论这个问题，于是对他们说：“你们为什么会想到这样的问题？
But Jesus, perceiving what they were thinking, answered and said to them, “Why are you questioning this in your hearts?
23 说‘你的罪已被宽恕’容易，还是说‘站起来走吧’容易？
Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you' or to say 'Get up and walk?'
24 我想要向你们证明的是，人子在人间也有宽恕罪过的权力。”然后他对瘫痪之人说：“我现在对你说，站起来，拿着你的垫子回家去吧。”
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—he said to the paralysed man—”I tell you, get up, pick up your mat and go to your house.”
25 那人立刻在众人面前站起来，拿起刚才躺着的垫子，赞美着上帝离开了。
Immediately he got up in front of them and picked up the mat on which he was lying. Then he went away to his house, glorifying God.
26 众人对眼前的一切感到震惊，在倍感敬畏之余也纷纷开始赞美上帝。他们说：“我们今天见证了令人惊讶的事情。”
Everyone was amazed and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”
27 稍后，耶稣离开了这个城镇，看见一位名叫利未的税吏坐在交税亭处，于是对他说：“跟随我吧！”
After these things happened, Jesus went out from there and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax collector's tent. He said to him, “Follow me.”
28 于是利末站起来放下一切，决定跟随耶稣。
So Levi got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.
29 利未在自己家中大摆宴席，客人中除了很多税吏，还有其他一些人。但法利赛人和宗教老师开始抱怨耶稣的门徒，说：
Then Levi gave a big banquet in his house for Jesus. There were many tax collectors there and other people who were reclining at the table and eating with them.
30 “你们为什么要跟税吏和那些罪人一起吃喝呢？”
But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other sinful people?”
31 耶稣回答：“健康之人不需要医生，病患才需要。
Jesus answered them, “People who are well do not need a physician; only those who are sick.
32 我来这里并非感召正道之人，而是要召唤罪人。”
I did not come to call righteous people to repentance, but to call sinners to repentance.”
33 他们对耶稣说：“约翰的门徒经常禁食和祈祷，法利赛人的门徒也是，但你的门徒却大吃大喝。”
They said to him, “The disciples of John often fast and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same. But your disciples eat and drink.”
34 耶稣又问：“男傧相和新郎在一起时，怎么可以让男傧相禁食呢？
Jesus said to them, “Can anyone make the wedding attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is still with them?
35 时间一到，新郎要离开大家了，那一刻他们就要禁食了。”
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then in those days they will fast.”
36 耶稣又讲了一个比喻：“没有人会从新衣服上撕下一块布，补在旧衣服上。如果这样，不但新衣服撕破了，新撕下来的布与旧衣服也不协调。
Then Jesus also spoke a parable to them. “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to mend an old garment. If he did that, he would tear the new garment, and the piece of cloth from the new garment would not fit with the cloth of the old garment.
37 没有人会把新酒装在旧皮袋中，否则新酒就会把皮袋胀破，不但酒漏掉了，皮袋也损坏了。
No one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does that, the new wine would burst the skins, and the wine would be spilled, and the wineskins would be destroyed.
38 人们总是把新酒放在新皮袋里。
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
39 人们喝了陈酿的酒，就不想喝新酒了，他们会说：‘陈酿的口味就是好。’”
No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'”
