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1 factum est autem cum turbae inruerent in eum ut audirent verbum Dei et ipse stabat secus stagnum Gennesareth
Once, when the people were pressing round Jesus as they listened to God’s Message, he happened to be standing by the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats close to the shore.
2 et vidit duas naves stantes secus stagnum piscatores autem descenderant et lavabant retia
The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.
3 ascendens autem in unam navem quae erat Simonis rogavit eum a terra reducere pusillum et sedens docebat de navicula turbas
So, getting into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, Jesus asked him to push off a little way from the shore, and then sat down and taught the people from the boat.
4 ut cessavit autem loqui dixit ad Simonem duc in altum et laxate retia vestra in capturam
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon: “Push off into deep water, and throw out your nets for a haul.”
5 et respondens Simon dixit illi praeceptor per totam noctem laborantes nihil cepimus in verbo autem tuo laxabo rete
“We have been hard at work all night, Sir,” answered Simon, “and have not caught anything, but, at your bidding, I will throw out the nets.”
6 et cum hoc fecissent concluserunt piscium multitudinem copiosam rumpebatur autem rete eorum
They did so, and enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets began to break.
7 et annuerunt sociis qui erant in alia navi ut venirent et adiuvarent eos et venerunt et impleverunt ambas naviculas ita ut mergerentur
So they signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both the boats so full of fish that they were almost sinking.
8 quod cum videret Simon Petrus procidit ad genua Iesu dicens exi a me quia homo peccator sum Domine
When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus’ knees, exclaiming: “Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!”
9 stupor enim circumdederat eum et omnes qui cum illo erant in captura piscium quam ceperant
For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;
10 similiter autem Iacobum et Iohannem filios Zebedaei qui erant socii Simonis et ait ad Simonem Iesus noli timere ex hoc iam homines eris capiens
and so, too, were James and John, Zebediah’s sons, who were Simon’s partners. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon; “from to-day you shall catch men.”
11 et subductis ad terram navibus relictis omnibus secuti sunt illum
And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.
12 et factum est cum esset in una civitatum et ecce vir plenus lepra et videns Iesum et procidens in faciem rogavit eum dicens Domine si vis potes me mundare
On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: “Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean.”
13 et extendens manum tetigit illum dicens volo mundare et confestim lepra discessit ab illo
Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so: “I am willing; become clean.” Instantly the leprosy left the man;
14 et ipse praecepit illi ut nemini diceret sed vade ostende te sacerdoti et offer pro emundatione tua sicut praecepit Moses in testimonium illis
and then Jesus impressed upon him that he was not to say a word to any one, “but,” he added, “set out and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing, in the manner directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.”
15 perambulabat autem magis sermo de illo et conveniebant turbae multae ut audirent et curarentur ab infirmitatibus suis
However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;
16 ipse autem secedebat in deserto et orabat
but Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.
17 et factum est in una dierum et ipse sedebat docens et erant Pharisaei sedentes et legis doctores qui venerant ex omni castello Galilaeae et Iudaeae et Hierusalem et virtus erat Domini ad sanandum eos
On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was upon Jesus, so that he could work cures.)
18 et ecce viri portantes in lecto hominem qui erat paralyticus et quaerebant eum inferre et ponere ante eum
And there some men brought on a bed a man who was paralysed. They tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus;
19 et non invenientes qua parte illum inferrent prae turba ascenderunt supra tectum per tegulas submiserunt illum cum lecto in medium ante Iesum
but, finding no way of getting him in owing to the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him through the tiles, with his pallet, into the middle of the people and in front of Jesus.
20 quorum fidem ut vidit dixit homo remittuntur tibi peccata tua
When he saw their faith, Jesus said: “Friend, your sins have been forgiven you.”
21 et coeperunt cogitare scribae et Pharisaei dicentes quis est hic qui loquitur blasphemias quis potest dimittere peccata nisi solus Deus
The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. “Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?” they asked. “Who can forgive sins except God?”
22 ut cognovit autem Iesus cogitationes eorum respondens dixit ad illos quid cogitatis in cordibus vestris
When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed: “What are you debating with yourselves?
23 quid est facilius dicere dimittuntur tibi peccata an dicere surge et ambula
Which is the easier? — to say ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’? or to say ‘Get up, and walk about’?
24 ut autem sciatis quia Filius hominis potestatem habet in terra dimittere peccata ait paralytico tibi dico surge tolle lectum tuum et vade in domum tuam
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” — he spoke to the paralysed man — “To you I say, Get up, and take up your pallet, and go to your home.”
25 et confestim surgens coram illis tulit in quo iacebat et abiit in domum suam magnificans Deum
Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.
26 et stupor adprehendit omnes et magnificabant Deum et repleti sunt timore dicentes quia vidimus mirabilia hodie
The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said: “We have seen marvellous things to-day!”
27 et post haec exiit et vidit publicanum nomine Levi sedentem ad teloneum et ait illi sequere me
After this, Jesus went out; and he noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting in the tax-office, and said to him: “Follow me.”
28 et relictis omnibus surgens secutus est eum
Levi left everything and got up and followed him.
29 et fecit ei convivium magnum Levi in domo sua et erat turba multa publicanorum et aliorum qui cum illis erant discumbentes
And Levi gave a great entertainment at his house, in honour of Jesus; and a large number of tax-gatherers and others were at table with them.
30 et murmurabant Pharisaei et scribae eorum dicentes ad discipulos eius quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducatis et bibitis
The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus.”
31 et respondens Iesus dixit ad illos non egent qui sani sunt medico sed qui male habent
In answer Jesus said: “It is not those who are well that need a doctor, but those who are ill.
32 non veni vocare iustos sed peccatores in paenitentiam
I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent.”
33 at illi dixerunt ad eum quare discipuli Iohannis ieiunant frequenter et obsecrationes faciunt similiter et Pharisaeorum tui autem edunt et bibunt
“John’s disciples,” they said to Jesus, “Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!”
34 quibus ipse ait numquid potestis filios sponsi dum cum illis est sponsus facere ieiunare
But Jesus answered them: “Can you make the bridegroom’s friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?
35 venient autem dies et cum ablatus fuerit ab illis sponsus tunc ieiunabunt in illis diebus
But the days will come — a time when the bridegroom will be parted from them; and they will fast then, when those days come.”
36 dicebat autem et similitudinem ad illos quia nemo commissuram a vestimento novo inmittit in vestimentum vetus alioquin et novum rumpit et veteri non convenit commissura a novo
Then, as an illustration, Jesus said to them: “No man ever tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old one; for, if he does, he will not only tear the new garment, but the piece from the new one will not match the old.
37 et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres alioquin rumpet vinum novum utres et ipsum effundetur et utres peribunt
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins; for, if he does, the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine itself will run out, and the skins be lost.
38 sed vinum novum in utres novos mittendum est et utraque conservantur
But new wine must be put into fresh skins.
39 et nemo bibens vetus statim vult novum dicit enim vetus melius est
No man after drinking old wine wishes for new. ‘No,’ he says, ‘the old is excellent.’”
