1 Or il arriva, comme la foule se jetait toute sur lui pour entendre la parole de Dieu, qu'il se tenait sur le bord du lac de Génézareth.
2 Et voyant deux nacelles qui étaient au bord du lac, et dont les pêcheurs étaient descendus, et lavaient leurs rets, il monta dans l'une de ces nacelles, qui était à Simon.
3 Et il le pria de la mener un peu loin de terre; puis s'étant assis, il enseignait les troupes de dessus la nacelle.
4 Et quand il eut cessé de parler, il dit à Simon : mène en pleine eau, et lâchez vos filets pour pêcher.
5 Et Simon répondant, lui dit : Maître, nous avons travaillé toute la nuit, et nous n'avons rien pris; toutefois à ta parole je lâcherai les filets.
6 Ce qu'ayant fait, ils enfermèrent une si grande quantité de poissons, que leurs filets se rompaient.
7 Et ils firent signe à leurs compagnons qui étaient dans l'autre nacelle, de venir les aider; et étant venus, ils remplirent les deux nacelles, tellement qu'elles s'enfonçaient.
8 Et quand Simon-Pierre eut vu cela, il se jeta aux genoux de Jésus, en lui disant : Seigneur, retire-toi de moi; car je suis un homme pécheur.
9 Parce que la frayeur l'avait saisi, lui et tous ceux qui étaient avec lui, à cause de la prise de poissons qu'ils venaient de faire; de même que Jacques et Jean, fils de Zébédée, qui étaient compagnons de Simon.
10 Alors Jésus dit à Simon : n'aie point de peur; dorénavant tu seras un pêcheur d'hommes vivants.
11 Et quand ils eurent amené les nacelles à terre, ils quittèrent tout, et le suivirent.
12 Or il arriva que comme il était dans une des villes [de ce pays-là], voici, un homme plein de lèpre voyant Jésus, se jeta [en terre] sur sa face, et le pria, disant : Seigneur, si tu veux, tu peux me rendre net.
13 Et [Jésus] étendit la main, et le toucha, en disant : je le veux, sois net; et incontinent la lèpre le quitta.
14 Et il lui commanda de ne le dire à personne; mais va, lui dit-il, et te montre au Sacrificateur, et offre pour ta purification ce que Moïse a commandé, pour leur servir de témoignage.
15 Et sa renommée se répandait de plus en plus, tellement que de grandes troupes s'assemblaient pour l'entendre, et pour être guéries par lui de leurs maladies.
16 Mais il se tenait retiré dans les déserts, et priait.
17 Or il arriva un jour qu'il enseignait, que des Pharisiens et des Docteurs de la Loi, qui étaient venus de toutes les bourgades de Galilée, et de Judée, et de Jérusalem, étaient là assis, et la puissance du Seigneur était là pour opérer des guérisons.
18 Et voici des hommes qui portaient dans un lit un homme qui était paralytique, et ils cherchaient le moyen de le porter dans la maison, et de le mettre devant lui.
19 Mais ne trouvant point par quel côté ils pourraient l'introduire, à cause de la foule, ils montèrent sur la maison, et ils le descendirent par les tuiles, avec le petit lit, au milieu devant Jésus;
20 Qui voyant leur foi, dit au paralytique : homme, tes péchés te sont pardonnés.
21 Alors les Scribes et les Pharisiens commencèrent à raisonner en eux-mêmes, disant : qui est celui-ci qui prononce des blasphèmes? Qui est-ce qui peut pardonner les péchés, que Dieu seul?
22 Mais Jésus connaissant leurs pensées, prit la parole, et leur dit : pourquoi raisonnez-vous ainsi en vous-mêmes?
23 Lequel est le plus aisé, ou de dire : tes péchés te sont pardonnés; ou de dire : lève-toi, et marche?
24 Or afin que vous sachiez que le Fils de l'homme a le pouvoir sur la terre de pardonner les péchés, il dit au paralytique : je te dis, lève-toi, charge ton petit lit, et t'en va en ta maison.
25 Et à l'instant [le paralytique] s'étant levé devant eux, chargea le lit où il était couché, et s'en alla en sa maison, glorifiant Dieu.
26 Et ils furent tous saisis d'étonnement, et ils glorifiaient Dieu, et étant remplis de crainte, ils disaient : certainement nous avons vu aujourd'hui des choses qu'on n'eût jamais attendues.
27 Après cela il sortit, et il vit un péager nommé Lévi, assis au lieu du péage, et il lui dit : suis-moi.
28 Lequel abandonnant tout, se leva, et le suivit.
29 Et Lévi fit un grand festin dans sa maison, où il y avait une grosse assemblée de péagers, et d'autres gens qui étaient avec eux à table.
30 Et les Scribes de ce lieu-là et les Pharisiens, murmuraient contre ses Disciples, en disant : pourquoi est-ce que vous mangez et que vous buvez avec des péagers et des gens de mauvaise vie?
31 Mais Jésus prenant la parole, leur dit : ceux qui sont en santé n'ont pas besoin de médecin, mais ceux qui se portent mal.
32 Je ne suis point venu appeler à la repentance les justes, mais les pécheurs.
33 Ils lui dirent aussi : pourquoi est-ce que les disciples de Jean jeûnent souvent, et font des prières; pareillement aussi ceux des Pharisiens; mais les tiens mangent et boivent?
34 Et il leur dit : pouvez-vous faire jeûner les amis de l'Epoux pendant que l'Epoux est avec eux?
35 Mais les jours viendront que l'Epoux leur sera ôté; alors ils jeûneront en ces jours-là.
36 Puis il leur dit cette similitude : personne ne met une pièce d'un vêtement neuf à un vieux vêtement; autrement le neuf déchire [le vieux], et la pièce du neuf ne se rapporte point au vieux.
37 Pareillement, personne ne met le vin nouveau dans de vieux vaisseaux; autrement le vin nouveau rompra les vaisseaux, et se répandra, et les vaisseaux seront perdus.
38 Mais le vin nouveau doit être mis dans des vaisseaux neufs; et ainsi ils se conservent l'un et l'autre.
39 Et il n'y a personne qui boive du vieux, qui veuille aussitôt du nouveau : car il dit : le vieux est meilleur.
1 Now 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;
2 And he saw two boats by the edge of the water, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
3 And 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.
4 And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.
5 And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.
6 And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;
7 And 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.
8 But 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.
9 For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;
10 And 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.
11 And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.
12 And 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.
13 And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him.
14 And 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.
15 But 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.
16 But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.
17 And 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.
18 And 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.
19 And 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.
20 And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.
21 And 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?
22 But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
23 Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?
24 But 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.
25 And straight away he got up before them, and took up his bed and went away to his house giving praise to God.
26 And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.
27 And 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.
28 And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
29 And 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.
30 And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?
31 And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
32 I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.
33 And 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.
34 And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?
35 But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
36 And 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.
37 And 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.
38 But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.