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 He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. 2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."

3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes."

4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’ 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—" (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house."

7 He arose and departed to his house. 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him. 10 As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

14 Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?"

15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. 17 Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved."

18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

19 Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. 20 Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; 21 for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well."

22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.

23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, 24 he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping."

They were ridiculing him. 25 But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 26 The report of this went out into all that land.

27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" 28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?"

They told him, "Yes, Lord."

29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." 30 Then their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this." 31 But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

32 As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. 33 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"

34 But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."

35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."