1 It came to pass that, as the people pressed on Him to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of A Harp (Gennesaret),
2 And saw two ships standing by the lake:
but the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
3 He entered one of the ships, which was Heard's
(Simon’s), and asked him to thrust out a little from the land. Then He sat down
and taught the people from the ship.
4 Now when He had finished speaking, He said
to Heard (Simon), “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”
5 Heard (Simon) replied, “Master, we have
toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless, at Your word I will
let down the net.”
6 And when they had this done, they enclosed
a great multitude of fish: and their net broke.
7 So they beckoned to their partners, who
were in the other ship, that they would come and help them. They came and
filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
8 When Heard (Simon) Peter saw it, he fell
down at I AM is Our Salvation’s (Yeshua’s) knees, saying, “Depart from me; for
I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
9 Because he was astonished, and all that
were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken:
10 And so were Supplanter (James), and I AM
is a Gracious Giver (John), the sons of My Gift (Zebedee), who were partners
with Heard (Simon). Then I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) said to Heard (Simon), “Fear
not; from here out you will catch men.”
11 So when they had brought their ships to
land, they forsook all and followed Him.
12 Then it came to pass, when He was in a
certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing I
AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) fell on his face, and begged Him, saying, “Lord,
if You will, You can make me clean.”
13 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) put forth His
hand, and touched him, saying, “I will. Be clean.” And immediately the leprosy
departed from him.
14 And He instructed him to tell no man: but
go, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as
Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
15 But this just spread His fame all the more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their
infirmities.
16 Then He withdrew Himself into the wilderness
and prayed.
17 It came to pass on a certain day, as He
was teaching, there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, and many
who had come out of every town of Circuit-District (Galilee), and Land of
Praise (Judaea), and Rain of Peace (Jerusalem): and the power of the Lord was
present to heal them.
18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man who
was taken with a palsy: and they sought a way to bring him in, and to lay him
before Him.
19 And when they could not find by what way
they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went on the housetop and
let him down through the tiling on his cot into the midst before I AM is Our
Salvation (Yeshua).
20 When I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) saw
their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven.”
21 But the scribes and the Pharisees began to
reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but
God alone?”
22 But I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua)
perceived their thoughts, and answered them, “Why do you reason so in your
hearts?
23 Which is easier to say? ‘Your sins are
forgiven, ' or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’
24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has
power on earth to forgive sins, (He said to the sick of the palsy,) I say to you,
Arise, and take up your cot, and go home.”
25 And immediately he rose before them, and
took up his cot, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
26 And they were all amazed, and they
glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
27 And after these things He went out, and
saw a tax collector, named Joined To (Levi), sitting at the tax booth: and He
said to him, “Follow Me.”
28 And he left all, rose up, and followed Him.
29 And Joined To (Levi) made Him a great
feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors and of
others that sat down with them.
30 But the scribes and Pharisees murmured
against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors
and sinners?”
31 I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) answered them,
“They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I did not come to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.”
33 And they said to Him, “Why do the
disciples of I AM is a Gracious Giver (John) fast often, and make prayers, and
likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but Yours eat and drink?”
34 He replied, “Can you make the children of
the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days will come, when the
bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.”
36 Then He told them a parable: “No man puts
a piece of a new garment on an old; if he does, then both the new will tear,
and the piece that was taken out of the new will not agree with the old.
37 And no man puts new wine into old bottles;
else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles will
perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles;
and both are preserved.
39 No man also having drunk old wine immediately
desires the new: for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
