Mateus 9

A cura dum paralítico em Cafarnaum

1 Jesus entrou numa barca, atravessou para o outro lado e foi *Mt 4.13; cp.Mc 5.21(?)à sua cidade. 2 *Mt 9.2-8;Mc 2.3-12;Lc 5.18-26Trouxeram-lhe um *vd.Mt 4.24;5.6paralítico, deitado em um leito. Vendo Jesus a fé que eles tinham, disse ao paralítico: *Mt 9.22;14.27;Mc 6.50;10.49;Jo 16.33;At 23.11Tem ânimo, filho; *Mc 2.5,9;Lc 5.20,23;7.48perdoados são os teus pecados. 3 Alguns escribas disseram consigo: Este homem blasfema. 4 Mas Jesus, *Mt 12.25;Lc 6.8;9.47conhecendo-lhes os pensamentos, disse: Por que pensais mal nos vossos corações? 5 Pois qual é mais fácil? Dizer: *Mc 2.5,9;Lc 5.20,23;7.48Perdoados são os teus pecados, ou dizer: Levanta-te e anda? 6 Para que saibais que *vd.Mt 8.20o Filho do homem tem sobre a terra autoridade para perdoar pecados — disse então ao *Mt 4.24;5.2paralítico: Levanta-te, toma o teu leito e vai para tua casa. 7 Ele se levantou e foi para sua casa. 8 Vendo isso as multidões, temeram e *Mt 5.16;15.31;Mc 2.12;Lc 2.20;5.25-26;7.16;13.13;17.15;23.47;Jo 15.8;At 4.21;11.18;21.20;2Co 9.13;Gl 1.24glorificaram a Deus, que dera tal autoridade aos homens.

A vocação de Mateus

9 *Mt 9.9-17;Mc 2.14-22;Lc 5.27-38Jesus, partindo dali, viu um homem chamado *Mt 10.3;Mc 3.18;Lc 6.15;At 1.13; cp.Mc 2.14Mateus sentado na coletoria e disse-lhe: *vd.Mt 8.22Segue-me! Ele se levantou e o seguiu.

Jesus come com pecadores

10 Estando ele à mesa em casa, vieram muitos publicanos e pecadores e sentaram-se com Jesus e com seus discípulos. 11 Os fariseus, vendo isso, perguntavam aos discípulos: *Mt 11.19;Mc 2.16;Lc 5.30;15.2Por que come o vosso Mestre com os publicanos e pecadores? 12 Mas Jesus, ouvindo-o, disse: *Mc 2.17;Lc 5.31Os sãos não precisam de médico, mas sim os enfermos. 13 Porém ide *Mt 12.7;Os 6.6aprender o que significa: Misericórdia quero e não holocaustos; *Mc 2.17;Lc 5.32; cp.1Tm 1.15pois não vim chamar os justos, mas os pecadores.

A questão do jejum

14 Depois, o procuraram os discípulos de João e lhe perguntaram: Por que é que nós e *Lc 18.12os fariseus jejuamos, mas teus discípulos não jejuam? 15 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Podem, porventura, estar tristes os convidados para o casamento, enquanto o noivo está com eles? Porém dias virão, em que lhes será tirado o noivo, e nesses dias jejuarão. 16 Ninguém põe remendo de pano novo em vestido velho; porque o remendo tira parte do vestido, e fica maior a rotura. 17 Nem se põe vinho novo em odres velhos; de outro modo, arrebentam os odres, e derrama-se o vinho, e estragam-se os odres. Mas vinho novo é posto em odres novos, e ambos se conservam.

O pedido de Jairo. A cura de uma mulher hemorrágica. A ressurreição da filha de Jairo

18 *Mt 9.18-26;Mc 5.22-43;Lc 8.41-56Enquanto assim lhes falava, veio um chefe da sinagoga e *vd.Mt 8.2adorava-o, dizendo: Neste momento, acaba de expirar minha filha; mas vem, põe a tua mão sobre ela, e viverá. 19 Jesus, levantando-se, o foi seguindo com seus discípulos. 20 Uma mulher, padecendo há doze anos de uma hemorragia, veio por detrás dele e tocou-lhe *Nm 15.38;Dt 22.12;Mt 14.36;23.5a fímbria da capa; 21 porque dizia consigo: Se eu lhe *cp.Mt 14.36;Mc 3.10;Lc 6.19tocar somente a capa, ficarei curada. 22 Jesus, voltando-se e vendo-a, disse: *vd.Mt 9.2Tem ânimo, filha; *Mc 5.34;10.52;Lc 7.50;8.48;17.19;18.42; cp.Mt 5.29;15.28a tua fé te sarou. Desde aquela hora, a mulher ficou sã. 23 Quando Jesus chegou à casa do chefe da sinagoga, vendo os *cp.2Cr 35.25;Jr 9.17;16.6;Ez 24.17tocadores de flauta e a multidão em alvoroço, 24 disse: Retirai-vos; pois a menina *Jo 11.13; cp.At 20.10não está morta, mas sim dormindo. Riam-se dele. 25 Mas, retirada a multidão, entrou Jesus, tomou a menina pela mão, e ela se levantou. 26 A *Mt 9.31;4.24;14.1;Mc 1.28,45;Lc 4.14,37;5.15;7.17fama desse fato correu por toda aquela terra.

A cura de dois cegos

27 Saindo Jesus dali, seguiram-no dois cegos, clamando: Tem compaixão de nós, *Mt 12.23;15.22;20.30-31;21.9,15;22.42;Mc 10.47-48;12.35;Lc 18.38-39;20.41s.; cp.Mt 1.1filho de Davi! 28 Tendo ele entrado em casa, vieram a ele os cegos; Jesus perguntou-lhes: Credes que posso fazer isso? Responderam eles: Cremos, Senhor. 29 Então lhes tocou os olhos, dizendo: *cp.Mt 5.22;8.13Faça-se-vos conforme a vossa fé. 30 Abriram-se-lhes os olhos. Jesus *vd.Mt 8.4advertiu-lhes com energia, dizendo: Vede que ninguém o saiba. 31 Eles, porém, saíram e lhe *Mt 4.24;9.26;14.1;Mc 1.28,45;Lc 4.14,37;5.15;7.17divulgaram a fama por toda aquela terra.

A cura de um mudo endemoninhado. A blasfêmia dos fariseus

32 Quando se retiravam, *cp.Mt 12.22,24foi-lhe trazido um mudo *vd.Mt 4.24endemoninhado. 33 Expulso o demônio, falou o mudo; e a multidão maravilhou-se, dizendo: *Mc 2.12Nunca tal se viu em Israel! 34 Mas os fariseus afirmavam: É pelo *Mt 12.24;Mc 3.22;Lc 11.15; cp.Jo 7.20s.príncipe dos demônios que ele expele os demônios.

Jesus ia por toda a parte fazendo o bem. A seara e os trabalhadores

35 Jesus percorria todas as cidades e aldeias, *vd.Mt 4.23ensinando nas sinagogas, *vd.Mt 4.23pregando o evangelho do reino *vd.Mt 4.23;Mc 1.14e curando todas as doenças e enfermidades. 36 *vd.Mt 14.14;15.32;Mc 6.34;8.2Vendo ele as turbas, compadeceu-se delas, *Mc 6.34;Nm 27.17;Ez 34.5;Zc 10.2porque estavam aflitas e exaustas como ovelhas sem pastor. 37 Então, disse a seus discípulos: *Lc 10.2A seara, na verdade, é grande, mas os trabalhadores são poucos; 38 rogai, pois, ao Senhor da seara que envie trabalhadores para a sua seara.

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,’✝9:13 Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."*9:13 NU omits "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 wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, 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*9:20 or, tassel 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*9:36 TR reads "weary" instead of "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."