Luke 5
1 Once, when the people were pressing around 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.
On one occasion the crowd was pressing on Him and listening to God's Message, while He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
2 The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.
He, however, saw two fishing-boats drawn up on the beach (for the men had gone away from them and were washing the nets),
3 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.
and going on board one of them, which was Simon's He asked him to push out a little from land. Then He sat down and taught the crowd of people from the boat.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Push off into deep water, and throw out your nets for a haul.”
When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and let down your nets for a haul."
5 “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.”
"Rabbi," replied Peter, "all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing; but at your command I will let down the nets."
6 They did so, and enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets began to break.
This they did, and enclosed a vast number of fish; and their nets began to break.
7 So they signaled 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.
So they signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came, and they filled both the boats so that they almost sank.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus’ knees, exclaiming, “Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!”
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at the knees of Jesus, and exclaimed, "Master, leave my boat, for I am a sinful man."
9 For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;
(For he was astonished and terrified--he and all his companions--at the haul of fish which they had taken;
10 and so, too, were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon, “from today you will catch people.”
and so were Simon's partners James and John, the sons of Zabdi.) But Jesus replied to Simon, "Fear not: from this time you shall be a catcher of men."
11 And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.
Then, after bringing their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.
12 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.”
On another occasion, when He was in one of the towns, there was a man there covered with leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, threw himself at His feet and implored Him, saying, "Sir, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."
13 Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so, “I am willing; become clean.” Instantly the leprosy left the man;
Reaching out His hand and touching him, Jesus said, "I am willing; be cleansed!" And instantly the leprosy left him.
14 and then Jesus impressed on him that he was not to say a word to anyone, “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.”
He ordered him to tell no one. "But go," He said, "show yourself to the Priest, and make the offering for your purification which Moses appointed, as evidence for them."
15 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;
But all the more the report about Him spread abroad, and great multitudes crowded to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases;
16 but Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.
but Jesus Himself constantly withdrew into the Desert and there prayed.
17 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 on Jesus, so that he could work cures.)
One day He was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village in Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present for Him to cure people.
18 And there some men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed. They tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus;
And a party of men came carrying a palsied man on a bed, and they endeavoured to bring him in and lay him before Jesus.
19 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.
But when they could find no way of doing so because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiling--bed and all--into the midst, in front of Jesus.
20 When he saw their faith, Jesus said, “Friend, your sins have been forgiven you.”
He saw their faith and said to him, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
21 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?”
Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"
22 When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed, “What are you debating with yourselves?
Well aware of their reasonings, Jesus answered their questions by asking in turn, "What is this that you are debating in your hearts?
23 Which is the easier? – to say ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’?
Which is easier? --to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?
24 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – he spoke to the paralyzed man – “To you I say, Get up, and take up your pallet, and go to your home.”
But to prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" --Turning to the paralytic He said, "I bid you, Rise, take up your bed, and go home."
25 Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.
Instantly he stood up in their presence, took up the mattress on which he had been lying, and went away to his home, giving glory to God.
26 The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said, “We have seen marvelous things today!”
Amazement seized them all. "Glory to God!" was the abiding feeling. Yet fear flashed through their minds and they said, "We have seen strange things to-day."
27 After this, Jesus went out; and he noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting in the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me.”
After this He went out and noticed a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the Toll office; and He said to him, "Follow me."
28 Levi left everything and got up and followed him.
He rose, left everything, and followed Him.
29 And Levi gave a great banquet at his house, in honor of Jesus; and a large number of tax collectors and others were having dinner with them.
Levi also gave a great entertainment at his house in honour of Jesus, and there was a large party of tax-gatherers and others at table with them.
30 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus.
This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate with His disciples and ask, "Why are you eating and drinking with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"
31 In answer Jesus said, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are ill.
But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health who require a physician, but the sick.
32 I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent.”
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
33 “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!”
Again they said to Him, "John's disciples fast often and pray, as do also those of the pharisees; but yours eat and drink."
34 But Jesus answered them, “Can you make the groom’s friends fast while the groom is with them?
"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?
35 But the days will come – a time when the groom will be taken away from them; and they will fast then, when those days come.”
But a time for this will come, when the Bridegroom has been taken away from them: then, at that time, they will fast."
36 Then, as an illustration, Jesus said to them, “No one ever tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old one; for, if they do, they will not only tear the new garment, but the piece from the new one will not match the old.
He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old.
37 And no one puts new wine into old wine-skins; for, if they do, the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine itself will run out, and the skins be lost.
Nor does any one pour new wine into old wine-skins. Otherwise the new wine would burst the skins, the wine itself would be spilt, and the skins be destroyed.
38 But new wine must be put into fresh skins.
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
39 No one after drinking old wine wishes for new. ‘No,’ they say, ‘the old is excellent.’”
Nor does any one after drinking old wine wish for new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"
