Luke 5-6

Luke 5

¹Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;

²And he saw two boats by the edge of the water, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

³And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.

⁴And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

⁵And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

⁶And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;

⁷And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.

⁸But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

⁹For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;

¹⁰And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

¹¹And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.

¹²And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.

¹³And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him.

¹⁴And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.

¹⁵But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.

¹⁶But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

¹⁷And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.

¹⁸And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.

¹⁹And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

²⁰And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

²¹And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?

²²But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

²³Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?

²⁴But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (he said to the man who was ill,) I say to you, Get up, and take up your bed, and go into your house.

²⁵And straight away he got up before them, and took up his bed and went away to his house giving praise to God.

²⁶And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

²⁷And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

²⁸And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

²⁹And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

³⁰And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?

³¹And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

³²I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

³³And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

³⁴And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?

³⁵But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

³⁶And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

³⁷And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

³⁸But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

³⁹And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

Luke 6

¹Now it came about that on the Sabbath he was going through the fields of grain, and his disciples took the heads of the grain for food, crushing them in their hands.

²But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

³And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

⁴How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

⁵And he said, The Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.

⁶And it came about, on another Sabbath, that he went into the Synagogue and was teaching there. And a man was there whose right hand was dead.

⁷And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him.

⁸But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.

⁹And Jesus said, I put the question to you, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to take it away?

¹⁰And looking round on all of them, he said to him, Put out your hand. And he did so: and his hand was made well.

¹¹But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.

¹²And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

¹³And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;

¹⁴Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew

¹⁵And Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was named the Zealot,

¹⁶And Judas, the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, he who was false to him.

¹⁷And he came down with them to a level place, and a great band of his disciples, and a very great number of people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the parts of Tyre and Sidon by the sea, came to give hearing to him, and to be made well from their diseases;

¹⁸And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were made well.

¹⁹And all the people were desiring to be touched by him, for power came from him and made them all well.

²⁰And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.

²¹Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

²²Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.

²³Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

²⁴But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

²⁵Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

²⁶Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

²⁷But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,

²⁸Give blessing to those who give you curses, say prayers for those who are cruel to you.

²⁹If a man gives you a blow on one side of your face, then let the other side be turned to him; from him who takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe.

³⁰Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.

³¹Do to others as you would have them do to you.

³²If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

³³And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.

³⁴And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.

³⁵But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

³⁶Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

³⁷Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.

³⁹And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

⁴⁰The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

⁴¹And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

⁴²How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

⁴³For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

⁴⁴For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

⁴⁵The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

⁴⁶Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

⁴⁹But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.