Mattheum 9
1 Et ascendens in naviculam, transfretavit, et venit in civitatem suam.
Afterwards Jesus got into a boat, and, crossing over, came to his own city.
2 Et ecce offerebant ei paralyticum iacentem in lecto. Et videns Iesus fidem illorum, dixit paralytico: Confide fili, remittuntur tibi peccata tua.
There some people brought to him a paralysed man on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, ‘Courage, child! Your sins are forgiven.’
3 Et ecce quidam de Scribis dixerunt intra se: Hic blasphemat.
Then some of the teachers of the Law said to themselves, ‘This man is blaspheming!’
4 Et cum vidisset Iesus cogitationes eorum, dixit: Ut quid cogitatis mala in cordibus vestris?
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed, ‘Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?
5 Quid est facilius dicere: Dimittuntur tibi peccata tua: an dicere: Surge, et ambula?
Which, I ask, is the easier? – to say “Your sins are forgiven”? Or to say “Get up, and walk”?
6 Ut autem sciatis, quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, tunc ait paralytico: Surge, tolle lectum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.
But to show you that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins’ – then he said to the paralysed man – ‘Get up, take up your bed, and return to your home.’
7 Et surrexit, et abiit in domum suam.
The man got up and went to his home.
8 Videntes autem turbæ timuerunt, et glorificaverunt Deum, qui dedit potestatem talem hominibus.
When the crowd saw this, they were awe-struck, and praised God for giving such power to human beings.
9 Et, cum transiret inde Iesus, vidit hominem sedentem in telonio, Matthæum nomine. Et ait illi: Sequere me. Et surgens, secutus est eum.
As Jesus went along, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting in the tax office, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ Matthew got up and followed him.
10 Et factum est discumbente eo in domo, ecce multi publicani, et peccatores venientes discumbebant cum Iesu, et discipulis eius.
And, later on, when he was having dinner in the house, a number of tax collectors and outcasts came in and took their places at the table with Jesus and his disciples.
11 Et videntes Pharisæi, dicebant discipulis eius: Quare cum publicanis, et peccatoribus manducat Magister vester?
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat in the company of tax collectors and outcasts?’
12 At Iesus audiens, ait: Non est opus valentibus medicus, sed male habentibus.
On hearing this, Jesus said, ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill.
13 Euntes autem discite quid est: Misericordiam volo, et non sacrificium. Non enim veni vocare iustos, sed peccatores.
Go and learn what this means – “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice”; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.’
14 Tunc accesserunt ad eum discipuli Ioannis, dicentes: Quare nos, et Pharisæi ieiunamus frequenter: discipuli autem tui non ieiunant?
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, and asked, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?’
15 Et ait illis Iesus: Numquid possunt filii sponsi lugere, quamdiu cum illis est sponsus? Venient autem dies cum auferetur ab eis sponsus: et tunc ieiunabunt.
Jesus answered, ‘Can the groom’s friends mourn as long as the groom is with them? But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then.
16 Nemo autem immittit commissuram panni rudis in vestimentum vetus: tollit enim plenitudinem eius a vestimento: et peior scissura fit.
Nobody ever puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for such a patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
17 Neque mittunt vinum novum in utres veteres. Alioquin rumpuntur utres, et vinum effunditur, et utres pereunt. Sed vinum novum in utres novos mittunt: et ambo conservantur.
Nor do people put new wine into old wine-skins; for, if they do, the skins burst, and the wine runs out, and the skins are lost; but they put new wine into fresh skins, and so both are preserved.’
18 Hæc illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens: Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est: sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.
While Jesus was saying this, a synagogue leader came up and bowed to the ground before him. ‘My daughter,’ he said, ‘has just died; but come and place your hand on her, and she will be restored to life.’
19 Et surgens Iesus, sequebatur eum, et discipuli eius.
So Jesus rose and followed him, and his disciples went also.
20 Et ecce mulier, quæ sanguinis fluxum patiebatur duodecim annis, accessit retro, et tetigit fimbriam vestimenti eius.
But meanwhile a woman, who had been suffering from haemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak.
21 Dicebat enim intra se: Si tetigero tantum vestimentum eius: salva ero.
‘If I only touch his cloak,’ she said to herself, ‘I will get well.’
22 At Iesus conversus, et videns eam, dixit: Confide filia, fides tua te salvam fecit. Et salva facta est mulier ex illa hora.
Turning and seeing her, Jesus said, ‘Courage, daughter! Your faith has delivered you.’ And at that very moment she became well.
23 Et cum venisset Iesus in domum principis, et vidisset tibicines et turbam tumultuantem, dicebat:
When Jesus reached the leader’s house, seeing the flute players, and a number of people all in confusion,
24 Recedite: non est enim mortua puella, sed dormit. Et deridebant eum.
he said, ‘Go away, the little girl is not dead; she is asleep.’ They began to laugh at him;
25 Et cum eiecta esset turba, intravit: et tenuit manum eius. Et surrexit puella.
but, when the people had been sent out, Jesus went in, and took the little girl’s hand, and she rose.
26 Et exiit fama hæc in universam terram illam.
The report of this spread through all that part of the country.
27 Et transeunte inde Iesu, secuti sunt eum duo cæci, clamantes, et dicentes: Miserere nostri, fili David.
As Jesus was passing on from there, he was followed by two blind men, who kept calling out, ‘Take pity on us, Son of David!’
28 Cum autem venisset domum, accesserunt ad eum cæci. Et dicit eis Iesus: Creditis quia hoc possum facere vobis? Dicunt ei: Utique, Domine.
When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him; and Jesus asked them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ ‘Yes, Master!’ they answered.
29 Tunc tetigit oculos eorum, dicens: Secundum fidem vestram fiat vobis.
Then he touched their eyes, and said, ‘It will be according to your faith.’
30 Et aperti sunt oculi eorum: et comminatus est illis Iesus, dicens: Videte ne quis sciat.
Then their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly cautioned them. ‘See that no one knows of it,’ he said.
31 Illi autem exeuntes, diffamaverunt eum in tota terra illa.
But the men went out, and spread the news about him through all that part of the country.
32 Egressis autem illis, ecce obtulerunt ei hominem mutum, dæmonium habentem.
Just as they were going out, some people brought up to Jesus a dumb man who was possessed by a demon;
33 Et eiecto dæmonio, locutus est mutus, et miratæ sunt turbæ, dicentes: Numquam apparuit sic in Israel.
and, as soon as the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. The people were astonished at this, and exclaimed, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!’
34 Pharisæi autem dicebant: In principe dæmoniorum eiicit dæmones.
But the Pharisees said, ‘He drives out the demons by the help of the chief of the demons.’
35 Et circuibat Iesus omnes civitates, et castella, docens in synagogis eorum, et prædicans Evangelium regni, et curans omnem languorem, et omnem infirmitatem.
Jesus went round all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
36 Videns autem turbas, misertus est eis: quia erant vexati, et iacentes sicut oves non habentes pastorem.
But, when he saw the crowds, his heart was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and harassed, like sheep without a shepherd;
37 Tunc dicit discipulis suis: Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci.
and he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is abundant, but the labourers are few.
38 Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.
Therefore pray to the owner of the harvest to send labourers to gather in his harvest.’
