1 En nadat Hy in die skuit geklim het, het Hy oorgevaar en in sy eie stad gekom.

2 En hulle het 'n verlamde man wat op 'n bed lê, na Hom gebring. En toe Jesus hulle geloof sien, sê Hy aan die verlamde: Seun, hou goeie moed, jou sondes is jou vergewe.

3 En sommige van die skrifgeleerdes het by hulleself gesê: Hierdie man praat godslasterlik.

4 En toe Jesus merk wat hulle gedagtes was, sê Hy: Waarom bedink julle slegte dinge in julle harte?

5 Want wat is makliker, om te sê: Die sondes is jou vergewe! of om te sê: Staan op en loop?

6 Maar dat julle kan weet dat die Seun van die mens mag het om op aarde sondes te vergewe -- toe sê Hy vir die verlamde man: Staan op, neem jou bed op en gaan na jou huis toe.

7 En hy het opgestaan en huis toe gegaan.

8 En toe die skare dit sien, was hulle verwonderd en het God verheerlik wat so 'n mag aan die mense gegee het.

9 En toe Jesus daarvandaan verder gaan, sien Hy 'n man met die naam van Matth,s by die tolhuis sit; en Hy sê vir hom: Volg My. En hy het opgestaan en Hom gevolg.

10 En terwyl Hy in die huis aan tafel was, het daar baie tollenaars en sondaars saam met Jesus en sy dissipels aan tafel gegaan.

11 En toe die Fariseërs dit sien, sê hulle vir sy dissipels: Waarom eet julle Meester saam met tollenaars en sondaars?

12 Maar toe Jesus dit hoor, sê Hy vir hulle: Die wat gesond is, het die geneesheer nie nodig nie, maar die wat ongesteld is.

13 Maar gaan leer wat dit beteken: Ek wil barmhartigheid hê en nie offerande nie; want Ek het nie gekom om regverdiges te roep nie, maar sondaars tot bekering.

14 Daarna kom die dissipels van Johannes na Hom en sê: Waarom vas ons en die Fariseërs dikwels, maar u dissipels vas nie?

15 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Kan die bruilofsgaste dan treur so lank as die bruidegom by hulle is? Maar daar sal dae kom wanneer die bruidegom van hulle weggeneem word, en dan sal hulle vas.

16 En niemand sit 'n nuwe stuk lap op 'n ou kleed nie; want die aangelapte stuk skeur van die kleed af en daar kom 'n erger skeur.

17 'n Mens gooi ook nie nuwe wyn in ou leersakke nie; anders bars die sakke en die wyn loop uit en die sakke vergaan. Maar 'n mens gooi nuwe wyn in nuwe sakke en altwee bly behoue.

18 Terwyl Hy vir hulle dit sê, kom daar 'n sekere owerste en val voor Hom neer en sê: My dogter het nou net gesterwe, maar kom en lê u hand op haar, en sy sal lewe.

19 En Jesus het opgestaan en hom gevolg, en ook sy dissipels.

20 En daar het 'n vrou wat twaalf jaar lank aan bloedvloeiing gely het, van agter gekom en die soom van sy kleed aangeraak.

21 Want sy het by haarself gesê: As ek maar net sy kleed kan aanraak, sal ek gesond word.

22 En Jesus het omgedraai en haar gesien en gesê: Hou goeie moed, dogter, jou geloof het jou gered. En die vrou het gesond geword van daardie uur af.

23 En toe Jesus in die huis van die owerste kom en die fluitspelers sien, en die skare wat te kere gaan,

24 sê Hy vir hulle: Gaan weg, want die dogtertjie is nie dood nie, maar sy slaap. En hulle het Hom uitgelag.

25 En nadat die skare uitgedryf was, het Hy ingegaan en haar hand gegryp; en die dogtertjie het opgestaan.

26 En die gerug hiervan het deur daardie hele land versprei.

27 En toe Jesus daarvandaan verder gaan, het twee blindes Hom gevolg, terwyl hulle uitroep en sê: Wees ons barmhartig, Seun van Dawid!

28 En nadat Hy in die huis gegaan het, kom die blindes na Hom toe. En Jesus sê vir hulle: Glo julle dat Ek dit kan doen? Hulle antwoord Hom: Ja, Here.

29 Toe raak Hy hulle oë aan en sê: Laat dit vir julle wees volgens julle geloof.

30 En hulle oë het oopgegaan. En Jesus het hulle skerp aangespreek en gesê: Pas op, laat niemand dit te wete kom nie.

31 Maar hulle het heengegaan en Hom in daardie hele land bekend gemaak.

32 En terwyl hulle weggaan, bring die mense 'n stom man wat van die duiwel besete was, na Hom toe.

33 En nadat die duiwel uitgedryf was, het die stomme gepraat. En die skare het hulle verwonder en gesê: So iets is nog nooit in Israel gesien nie!

34 Maar die Fariseërs het gesê: Deur die owerste van die duiwels dryf Hy die duiwels uit.

35 En Jesus het by al die stede en dorpe rondgegaan en in hulle sinagoges geleer en die evangelie van die koninkryk verkondig en elke siekte en elke kwaal onder die volk genees.

36 En toe Hy die skare sien, het Hy innig jammer gevoel vir hulle, omdat hulle moeg en uitgeput was, soos skape wat geen herder het nie.

37 Toe sê Hy vir sy dissipels: Die oes is wel groot, maar die arbeiders min.

38 Bid dan die Here van die oes, dat Hy arbeiders in sy oes mag uitstuur.

1 And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.

2 And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.

3 And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.

4 And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

5 For which is the simpler, to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?

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

7 And he got up and went away to his house.

8 But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.

9 And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.

10 And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

12 But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

15 And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

16 And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

17 And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.

18 While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life.

19 And Jesus got up and went after him, and so did his disciples.

20 And a woman, who for twelve years had had a flow of blood, came after him, and put her hand on the edge of his robe:

21 Because, she said to herself, if I may but put my hand on his robe, I will be made well.

22 But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.

23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the players with their instruments and the people making a noise,

24 He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.

25 But when the people were sent out, he went in and took her by the hand; and the girl got up.

26 And the news of it went out into all that land.

27 And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.

28 And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.

29 Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you.

30 And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it.

31 But they went out and gave news of him in all that land.

32 And while they were going away, there came to him a man without the power of talking, and with an evil spirit.

33 And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.

34 But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men.

35 And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.

36 But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

37 Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.

38 Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.