Luke 5
1 On one occasion the crowd was pressing on Him and listening to God's Message, while He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
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。
2 He, however, saw two fishing-boats drawn up on the beach (for the men had gone away from them and were washing the nets),
耶稣看见两只船停在湖边，渔夫离开船去洗网了。
3 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.
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。
4 When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and let down your nets for a haul."
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！”
5 "Rabbi," replied Peter, "all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing; but at your command I will let down the nets."
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。”
6 This they did, and enclosed a vast number of fish; and their nets began to break.
西门撒网后捞上很多鱼，几乎将网撑裂。
7 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.
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。
8 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."
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。”
9 (For he was astonished and terrified--he and all his companions--at the haul of fish which they had taken;
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。
10 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."
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。”
11 Then, after bringing their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.
这几名渔夫把两只船靠上岸后，便放下一切跟随耶稣。
12 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."
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。”
13 Reaching out His hand and touching him, Jesus said, "I am willing; be cleansed!" And instantly the leprosy left him.
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。
14 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."
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。”
15 But all the more the report about Him spread abroad, and great multitudes crowded to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases;
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。
16 but Jesus Himself constantly withdrew into the Desert and there prayed.
但耶稣却经常躲到安静的地方祷告。
17 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.
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。
18 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.
几个人用床抬着一个瘫痪之人，想送他到耶稣跟前。
19 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.
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。
20 He saw their faith and said to him, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
耶稣看出了他们对他的信任，于是说：“你们的罪被宽恕了。”
21 Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"
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？”
22 Well aware of their reasonings, Jesus answered their questions by asking in turn, "What is this that you are debating in your hearts?
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？
23 Which is easier? --to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?
说‘你的罪已被宽恕’容易，还是说‘站起来走吧’容易？
24 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."
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。”
25 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.
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。
26 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."
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。”
27 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."
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！”
28 He rose, left everything, and followed Him.
于是利末站起来放下一切，决定跟随耶稣。
29 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.
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：
30 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?"
“你们为什么要跟税吏和那些罪人一起吃喝呢？”
31 But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health who require a physician, but the sick.
耶稣回答：“健康之人不需要医生，病患才需要。
32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
我来这里并非感召正道之人，而是要召唤罪人。”
33 Again they said to Him, "John's disciples fast often and pray, as do also those of the pharisees; but yours eat and drink."
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。”
34 "Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?
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？
35 But a time for this will come, when the Bridegroom has been taken away from them: then, at that time, they will fast."
时间一到，新郎要离开大家了，那一刻他们就要禁食了。”
36 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.
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。
37 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.
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。
38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
人们总是把新酒放在新皮袋里。
39 Nor does any one after drinking old wine wish for new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"
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。’”
