Luke 5 (VUL) · Opened

1Factum est autem, cum turbæ irruerunt in eum ut audirent verbum Dei, et ipse stabat secus stagnum Genesareth.On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God,

2Et vidit duas naves stantes secus stagnum: piscatores autem descenderant, et lavabant retia.He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

3Ascendens autem in unam navim, quæ erat Simonis, rogavit eum a terra reducere pusillum. Et sedens docebat de navicula turbas.Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat.

4Ut cessavit autem loqui, dixit ad Simonem: Duc in altum, et laxate retia vestra in capturam.When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

5Et respondens Simon, dixit illi: Præceptor, per totam noctem laborantes nihil cepimus: in verbo autem tuo laxabo rete.“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”

6Et cum hoc fecissent, concluserunt piscium multitudinem copiosam: rumpebatur autem rete eorum.When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.

7Et annuerunt sociis, qui erant in alia navi, ut venirent, et adjuvarent eos. Et venerunt, et impleverunt ambas naviculas, ita ut pene mergerentur.So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

8Quod cum videret Simon Petrus, procidit ad genua Jesu, dicens: Exi a me, quia homo peccator sum, Domine.When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

9Stupor enim circumdederat eum, et omnes qui cum illo erant, in captura piscium, quam ceperant:For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,

10similiter autem Jacobum et Joannem, filios Zebedæi, qui erant socii Simonis. Et ait ad Simonem Jesus: Noli timere: ex hoc jam homines eris capiens.and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”

11Et subductis ad terram navibus, relictis omnibus, secuti sunt eum.And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.

12Et factum est, cum esset in una civitatum, et ecce vir plenus lepra, et videns Jesum, et procidens in faciem, rogavit eum, dicens: Domine, si vis, potes me mundare.While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

13Et extendens manum, tetigit eum dicens: Volo: mundare. Et confestim lepra discessit ab illo.Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

14Et ipse præcepit illi ut nemini diceret: sed, Vade, ostende te sacerdoti, et offer pro emundatione tua, sicut præcepit Moyses, in testimonium illis.“Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

15Perambulabat autem magis sermo de illo: et conveniebant turbæ multæ ut audirent, et curarentur ab infirmitatibus suis.But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

16Ipse autem secedebat in desertum, et orabat.Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

17Et factum est in una dierum, et ipse sedebat docens. Et erant pharisæi sedentes, et legis doctores, qui venerant ex omni castello Galilææ, et Judææ, et Jerusalem: et virtus Domini erat ad sanandum eos.One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

18Et ecce viri portantes in lecto hominem, qui erat paralyticus: et quærebant eum inferre, et ponere ante eum.Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,

19Et non invenientes qua parte illum inferrent præ turba, ascenderunt supra tectum, et per tegulas summiserunt eum cum lecto in medium ante Jesum.but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

20Quorum fidem ut vidit, dixit: Homo, remittuntur tibi peccata tua.When Jesus saw their faith, He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”

21Et cœperunt cogitare scribæ et pharisæi, dicentes: Quis est hic, qui loquitur blasphemias? quis potest dimittere peccata, nisi solus Deus?But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

22Ut cognovit autem Jesus cogitationes eorum, respondens, dixit ad illos: Quid cogitatis in cordibus vestris?Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

23Quid est facilius dicere: Dimittuntur tibi peccata: an dicere: Surge, et ambula?Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

24Ut autem sciatis quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, (ait paralytico) tibi dico, surge, tolle lectum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins…” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

25Et confestim consurgens coram illis, tulit lectum in quo jacebat: et abiit in domum suam, magnificans Deum.And immediately the man stood up before them, took what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

26Et stupor apprehendit omnes, et magnificabant Deum. Et repleti sunt timore, dicentes: Quia vidimus mirabilia hodie.Everyone was taken with amazement and glorified God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

27Et post hæc exiit, et vidit publicanum nomine Levi, sedentem ad telonium, et ait illi: Sequere me.After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him,

28Et relictis omnibus, surgens secutus est eum.and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.

29Et fecit ei convivium magnum Levi in domo sua: et erat turba multa publicanorum, et aliorum qui cum illis erant discumbentes.Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

30Et murmurabant pharisæi et scribæ eorum, dicentes ad discipulos ejus: Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducatis et bibitis?But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31Et respondens Jesus, dixit ad illos: Non egent qui sani sunt medico, sed qui male habent.Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

32Non veni vocare justos, sed peccatores ad pœnitentiam.I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

33At illi dixerunt ad eum: Quare discipuli Joannis jejunant frequenter, et obsecrationes faciunt, similiter et pharisæorum: tui autem edunt et bibunt?Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples and those of the Pharisees frequently fast and pray, but Yours keep on eating and drinking.”

34Quibus ipse ait: Numquid potestis filios sponsi, dum cum illis est sponsus, facere jejunare?Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?

35Venient autem dies, cum ablatus fuerit ab illis sponsus: tunc jejunabunt in illis diebus.But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”

36Dicebat autem et similitudinem ad illos: Quia nemo commissuram a novo vestimento immittit in vestimentum vetus: alioquin et novum rumpit, et veteri non convenit commissura a novo.He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

37Et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres: alioquin rumpet vinum novum utres, et ipsum effundetur, et utres peribunt:And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.

38sed vinum novum in utres novos mittendum est, et utraque conservantur.Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.

39Et nemo bibens vetus, statim vult novum: dicit enim: Vetus melius est.And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

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