mathiḥ 9
1 anantaraṁ yīśu rnaukāmāruhya punaḥ pāramāgatya nijagrāmam āyayau|
Afterward Jesus got into a boat, and, crossing over, came to his own city.
2 tataḥ katipayā janā ekaṁ pakṣāghātinaṁ svaṭṭopari śāyayitvā tatsamīpam ānayan; tato yīśusteṣāṁ pratītiṁ vijñāya taṁ pakṣāghātinaṁ jagāda, he putra, susthiro bhava, tava kaluṣasya marṣaṇaṁ jātam|
There some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Courage, child! Your sins are forgiven.”
3 tāṁ kathāṁ niśamya kiyanta upādhyāyā manaḥsu cintitavanta eṣa manuja īśvaraṁ nindati|
Then some of the teachers of the Law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”
4 tataḥ sa teṣām etādṛśīṁ cintāṁ vijñāya kathitavān, yūyaṁ manaḥsu kṛta etādṛśīṁ kucintāṁ kurutha?
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed, “Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?
5 tava pāpamarṣaṇaṁ jātaṁ, yadvā tvamutthāya gaccha, dvayoranayo rvākyayoḥ kiṁ vākyaṁ vaktuṁ sugamaṁ?
Which, I ask, is the easier? – to say ‘Your sins are forgiven’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’?
6 kintu medinyāṁ kaluṣaṁ kṣamituṁ manujasutasya sāmarthyamastīti yūyaṁ yathā jānītha, tadarthaṁ sa taṁ pakṣāghātinaṁ gaditavān, uttiṣṭha, nijaśayanīyaṁ ādāya gehaṁ gaccha|
But to show you that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – then he said to the paralyzed man – “Get up, take up your bed, and return to your home.”
7 tataḥ sa tatkṣaṇād utthāya nijagehaṁ prasthitavān|
The man got up and went to his home.
8 mānavā itthaṁ vilokya vismayaṁ menire, īśvareṇa mānavāya sāmarthyam īdṛśaṁ dattaṁ iti kāraṇāt taṁ dhanyaṁ babhāṣire ca|
When the crowd saw this, they were awe-struck, and praised God for giving such power to human beings.
9 anantaraṁ yīśustatsthānād gacchan gacchan karasaṁgrahasthāne samupaviṣṭaṁ mathināmānam ekaṁ manujaṁ vilokya taṁ babhāṣe, mama paścād āgaccha, tataḥ sa utthāya tasya paścād vavrāja|
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 tataḥ paraṁ yīśau gṛhe bhoktum upaviṣṭe bahavaḥ karasaṁgrāhiṇaḥ kaluṣiṇaśca mānavā āgatya tena sākaṁ tasya śiṣyaiśca sākam upaviviśuḥ|
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 phirūśinastad dṛṣṭvā tasya śiṣyān babhāṣire, yuṣmākaṁ guruḥ kiṁ nimittaṁ karasaṁgrāhibhiḥ kaluṣibhiśca sākaṁ bhuṁkte?
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat in the company of tax collectors and outcasts?”
12 yīśustat śrutvā tān pratyavadat, nirāmayalokānāṁ cikitsakena prayojanaṁ nāsti, kintu sāmayalokānāṁ prayojanamāste|
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill.
13 ato yūyaṁ yātvā vacanasyāsyārthaṁ śikṣadhvam, dayāyāṁ me yathā prīti rna tathā yajñakarmmaṇi|yato'haṁ dhārmmikān āhvātuṁ nāgato'smi kintu manaḥ parivarttayituṁ pāpina āhvātum āgato'smi|
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 anantaraṁ yohanaḥ śiṣyāstasya samīpam āgatya kathayāmāsuḥ, phirūśino vayañca punaḥ punarupavasāmaḥ, kintu tava śiṣyā nopavasanti, kutaḥ?
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?”
15 tadā yīśustān avocat yāvat sakhīnāṁ saṁṅge kanyāyā varastiṣṭhati, tāvat kiṁ te vilāpaṁ karttuṁ śakluvanti? kintu yadā teṣāṁ saṁṅgād varaṁ nayanti, tādṛśaḥ samaya āgamiṣyati, tadā te upavatsyanti|
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 purātanavasane kopi navīnavastraṁ na yojayati, yasmāt tena yojitena purātanavasanaṁ chinatti tacchidrañca bahukutsitaṁ dṛśyate|
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 anyañca purātanakutvāṁ kopi navānagostanīrasaṁ na nidadhāti, yasmāt tathā kṛte kutū rvidīryyate tena gostanīrasaḥ patati kutūśca naśyati; tasmāt navīnāyāṁ kutvāṁ navīno gostanīrasaḥ sthāpyate, tena dvayoravanaṁ bhavati|
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 aparaṁ tenaitatkathākathanakāle eko'dhipatistaṁ praṇamya babhāṣe, mama duhitā prāyeṇaitāvatkāle mṛtā, tasmād bhavānāgatya tasyā gātre hastamarpayatu, tena sā jīviṣyati|
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 tadānīṁ yīśuḥ śiṣyaiḥ sākam utthāya tasya paścād vavrāja|
So Jesus rose and followed him, and his disciples went also.
20 ityanantare dvādaśavatsarān yāvat pradarāmayena śīrṇaikā nārī tasya paścād āgatya tasya vasanasya granthiṁ pasparśa;
But meanwhile a woman, who had been suffering from hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak.
21 yasmāt mayā kevalaṁ tasya vasanaṁ spṛṣṭvā svāsthyaṁ prāpsyate, sā nārīti manasi niścitavatī|
“If I only touch his cloak,” she said to herself, “I will get well.”
22 tato yīśurvadanaṁ parāvarttya tāṁ jagāda, he kanye, tvaṁ susthirā bhava, tava viśvāsastvāṁ svasthāmakārṣīt| etadvākye gaditaeva sā yoṣit svasthābhūt|
Turning and seeing her, Jesus said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has delivered you.” And at that very moment she became well.
23 aparaṁ yīśustasyādhyakṣasya gehaṁ gatvā vādakaprabhṛtīn bahūn lokān śabdāyamānān vilokya tān avadat,
When Jesus reached the leader’s house, seeing the flute players, and a number of people all in confusion,
24 panthānaṁ tyaja, kanyeyaṁ nāmriyata nidritāste; kathāmetāṁ śrutvā te tamupajahasuḥ|
he said, “Go away, the little girl is not dead; she is asleep.” They began to laugh at him;
25 kintu sarvveṣu bahiṣkṛteṣu so'bhyantaraṁ gatvā kanyāyāḥ karaṁ dhṛtavān, tena sodatiṣṭhat;
but, when the people had been sent out, Jesus went in, and took the little girl’s hand, and she rose.
26 tatastatkarmmaṇo yaśaḥ kṛtsnaṁ taṁ deśaṁ vyāptavat|
The report of this spread through all that part of the country.
27 tataḥ paraṁ yīśustasmāt sthānād yātrāṁ cakāra; tadā he dāyūdaḥ santāna, asmān dayasva, iti vadantau dvau janāvandhau procairāhūyantau tatpaścād vavrajatuḥ|
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 tato yīśau gehamadhyaṁ praviṣṭaṁ tāvapi tasya samīpam upasthitavantau, tadānīṁ sa tau pṛṣṭavān karmmaitat karttuṁ mama sāmarthyam āste, yuvāṁ kimiti pratīthaḥ? tadā tau pratyūcatuḥ, satyaṁ prabho|
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 tadānīṁ sa tayo rlocanāni spṛśan babhāṣe, yuvayoḥ pratītyanusārād yuvayo rmaṅgalaṁ bhūyāt| tena tatkṣaṇāt tayo rnetrāṇi prasannānyabhavan,
Then he touched their eyes, and said, “It will be according to your faith.”
30 paścād yīśustau dṛḍhamājñāpya jagāda, avadhattam etāṁ kathāṁ kopi manujo ma jānīyāt|
Then their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly cautioned them. “See that no one knows of it,” he said.
31 kintu tau prasthāya tasmin kṛtsne deśe tasya kīrttiṁ prakāśayāmāsatuḥ|
But the men went out, and spread the news about him through all that part of the country.
32 aparaṁ tau bahiryāta etasminnantare manujā ekaṁ bhūtagrastamūkaṁ tasya samīpam ānītavantaḥ|
Just as they were going out, some people brought up to Jesus a dumb man who was possessed by a demon;
33 tena bhūte tyājite sa mūkaḥ kathāṁ kathayituṁ prārabhata, tena janā vismayaṁ vijñāya kathayāmāsuḥ, isrāyelo vaṁśe kadāpi nedṛgadṛśyata;
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 kintu phirūśinaḥ kathayāñcakruḥ bhūtādhipatinā sa bhūtān tyājayati|
But the Pharisees said, “He drives out the demons by the help of the chief of the demons.”
35 tataḥ paraṁ yīśusteṣāṁ bhajanabhavana upadiśan rājyasya susaṁvādaṁ pracārayan lokānāṁ yasya ya āmayo yā ca pīḍāsīt, tān śamayan śamayaṁśca sarvvāṇi nagarāṇi grāmāṁśca babhrāma|
Jesus went around 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 anyañca manujān vyākulān arakṣakameṣāniva ca tyaktān nirīkṣya teṣu kāruṇikaḥ san śiṣyān avadat,
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 śasyāni pracurāṇi santi, kintu chettāraḥ stokāḥ|
and he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
38 kṣetraṁ pratyaparān chedakān prahetuṁ śasyasvāminaṁ prārthayadhvam|
Therefore pray to the owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.”
