LUKAS 5
Die roeping van die eerste dissipels
(Matt. 4:18-22; Mark. 1:16-20)
1 Op 'n dag toe Jesus langs die Gennesaretmeer staan en die skare vorentoe beur om die woord van God te hoor, 2 sien Hy twee skuite aan die kant van die meer lê. Die vissers het uitgeklim en was besig om die nette uit te spoel. 3 Jesus klim toe in een van die skuite, die een wat aan Simon behoort, en vra hom om dit 'n entjie van die oewer af weg te stoot. Nadat Hy gaan sit het, het Hy die skare van die skuit af geleer.
4 Toe Hy klaar gepraat het, sê Hy vir Simon: “Vaar uit na die diep water toe en gooi julle nette uit om te vang.”
5 “Meneer,” antwoord Simon, “ons het die hele nag deur geswoeg sonder om iets te vang, maar op u woord sal ek die nette uitgooi.”
6 En toe hulle dit doen, het hulle so 'n groot klomp vis gevang dat hulle nette wou skeur. 7 Hulle wink toe vir hulle maats in die ander skuit om te kom help. Hulle het gekom en albei die skuite so vol gemaak dat hulle amper gesink het.
8 Toe Simon Petrus dit sien, val hy voor Jesus se knieë neer en sê: “Gaan weg van my af, Here, want ek is 'n sondige mens.”
9 Hy en almal wat saam met hom was, was stom verbaas oor die groot klomp vis wat hulle gevang het. 10 Jakobus en Johannes, die seuns van Sebedeus wat saam met Simon gewerk het, was net so verbaas. Toe sê Jesus vir Simon: “Moenie bang wees nie. Van nou af sal jy mense vang.”
11 En nadat hulle die skuite op die strand getrek het, het hulle alles net so laat lê en sy volgelinge geword.
Die genesing van 'n melaatse
(Matt. 8:1-4; Mark. 1:40-45)
12 Eendag toe Jesus in een van die dorpe was, kom Hy 'n man teë wat oortrek was van die melaatsheid. Toe die man Hom sien, val hy op sy knieë voor Hom en smeek: “Here, as U wil, kan U my gesond maak.”
13 Jesus steek sy hand uit, raak hom aan en sê: “Ek wil. Word gesond!” En sy melaatsheid was onmiddellik weg.
14 Toe gee Jesus hom opdrag: “Moet dit aan niemand vertel nie, maar gaan wys jou vir die priester en bring offers vir jou reiniging soos Moses voorgeskryf het. Dit sal vir die mense die bewys wees dat jy rein geword het.”
15 Tog het die nuus oor Hom nog verder versprei, en groot menigtes het saamgedrom om na Hom te luister en van hulle siektes genees te word. 16 Maar Hy het Hom altyd weer in eensame plekke afgesonder om daar te bid.
'n Verlamde man word gesond gemaak
(Matt. 9:1-8; Mark. 2:1-12)
17 Op een van dié dae, terwyl Jesus besig was om die mense te leer, het daar ook Fariseërs en leermeesters van die wet van Moses gesit wat van oral af uit die dorpe van Galilea en Judea en selfs uit Jerusalem gekom het. En die Here het vir Jesus die krag gegee om mense gesond te maak.
18 Onverwags kom daar mense met 'n verlamde man op 'n draagbaar aan, en hulle probeer om hom die huis in te bring en voor Jesus neer te sit. 19 Toe hulle vanweë die gedrang nie kans sien om hom in te bring nie, klim hulle op die dak en laat hom met draagbaar en al deur 'n opening tussen die dakteëls afsak tussen die mense in en vlak voor Jesus. 20 Toe Hy hulle geloof sien, sê Hy: “Mens, jou sondes is jou vergewe.”
21 Die skrifgeleerdes en die Fariseërs het hulle begin afvra: “Wie is hy dat hy so godslasterlik praat? Wie anders kan sondes vergewe as net God alleen?”
22 Maar Jesus het hulle redeneringe gemerk en vir hulle gesê: “Wat redeneer julle by julleself? 23 Wat is makliker? Om te sê: ‘Jou sondes is jou vergewe,’ of om te sê: ‘Staan op en loop’? 24 Maar Ek gaan nou vir julle die bewys lewer dat die Seun van die mens volmag het om op aarde sondes te vergewe.” Toe sê Hy vir die verlamde man: “Ek sê vir jou: Staan op, vat jou draagbaar en gaan huis toe.”
25 Onmiddellik het hy voor hulle oë opgestaan, die draagbaar waarop hy gelê het, gevat en terwyl hy God prys, huis toe gegaan. 26 Almal het verbaas gestaan en God geprys en vol eerbiedige vrees gesê: “Vandag het ons ongelooflike dinge gesien.”
Die roeping van Levi
(Matt. 9:9-13; Mark. 2:13-17)
27 Daarna het Jesus uitgegaan en 'n tollenaar met die naam Levi by sy tolhuis sien sit, en Hy sê vir hom: “Volg My.”
28 Hy het alles net so laat lê en opgestaan en Jesus gevolg.
29 Levi het 'n groot feesmaal in sy huis gehou ter ere van Jesus, en 'n groot aantal tollenaars en ander mense het saam met hulle aangesit. 30 Die Fariseërs, en veral die skrifgeleerdes onder hulle, het by sy dissipels gekla en gesê: “Waarom eet en drink julle saam met tollenaars en sondaars?”
31 Toe antwoord Jesus hulle: “Dié wat gesond is, het nie 'n dokter nodig nie, maar dié wat siek is. 32 Ek het nie gekom om mense wat op die regte pad is, tot bekering te roep nie, maar sondaars.”
Wat dit beteken om te vas
(Matt. 9:14-17; Mark. 2:18-22)
33 Die mense sê toe vir Jesus: “Die volgelinge van Johannes vas dikwels en onderhou gereelde gebedstye, en so ook die volgelinge van die Fariseërs, en u dissipels eet en drink maar.”
34 Toe sê Jesus vir hulle: “Kan julle dan die bruilofsgaste laat vas terwyl die bruidegom by hulle is? 35 Daar sal 'n tyd kom wanneer die bruidegom van hulle weggeneem sal word en dan, in daardie dae, sal hulle vas.”
36 Hy vertel hulle ook nog 'n gelykenis: “Niemand skeur 'n stuk uit nuwe klere om daarmee ou klere te lap nie. As hy dit sou doen, sou die nuwe klere stukkend wees, en buitendien sal die nuwe lap nie by die ou klere pas nie.
37 “En niemand gooi nuwe wyn in ou velsakke nie. As hy dit sou doen, sal die nuwe wyn die velsakke laat oopbars. Dan is die wyn vermors en die sakke daarmee heen. 38 Nee, nuwe wyn moet in nuwe velsakke gegooi word.
39 “En niemand wat ou wyn gedrink het, wil nuwe wyn hê nie, want hy sê: Die oue is goed.”
Luke 5
1 NOW IT occurred that while the people pressed upon Jesus to hear the message of God, He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee).2 And He saw two boats drawn up by the lake, but the fishermen had gone down from them and were washing their nets.3 And getting into one of the boats, [the one] that belonged to Simon (Peter), He requested him to draw away a little from the shore. Then He sat down and continued to teach the crowd [of people] from the boat.4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon (Peter), Put out into the deep [water], and lower your nets for a haul.5 And Simon (Peter) answered, Master, we toiled all night [exhaustingly] and caught nothing [in our nets]. But on the ground of Your word, I will lower the nets [again].6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish; and as their nets were [at the point of] breaking,7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and take hold with them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.8 But when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.9 For he was gripped with bewildering amazement [allied to terror], and all who were with him, at the haul of fish which they had made;10 And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon (Peter). And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from now on you will be catching men!11 And after they had run their boats on shore, they left everything and joined Him as His disciples and sided with His party and accompanied Him.12 While He was in one of the towns, there came a man full of (covered with) leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You are able to cure me and make me clean.13 And [Jesus] reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed! And immediately the leprosy left him.14 And [Jesus] charged him to tell no one [that he might chance to meet], until [He said] you go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your purification, as Moses commanded, for a testimony and proof to the people, that they may have evidence [of your healing]. 15 But so much the more the news spread abroad concerning Him, and great crowds kept coming together to hear [Him] and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.16 But He Himself withdrew [in retirement] to the wilderness (desert) and prayed.17 One of those days, as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting by, who had come from every village and town of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was [present] with Him to heal them .18 And behold, some men were bringing on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to carry him in and lay him before [Jesus].19 But finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him with his stretcher through the tiles into the midst, in front of Jesus.20 And when He saw [their confidence in Him, springing from] their faith, He said, Man, your sins are forgiven you!21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason and question and argue, saying, Who is this [Man] Who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?22 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts and questionings, answered them, Why do you question in your hearts?23 Which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk [about]?24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has the [power of] authority and right on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralyzed man, I say to you, arise, pick up your litter (stretcher), and go to your own house!25 And instantly [the man] stood up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went away to his house, recognizing and praising and thanking God.26 And overwhelming astonishment and ecstasy seized them all, and they recognized and praised and thanked God; and they were filled with and controlled by reverential fear and kept saying, We have seen wonderful and strange and incredible and unthinkable things today!27 And after this, Jesus went out and looked [attentively] at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me.28 And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him [becoming His disciple and siding with His party].29 And Levi (Matthew) made a great banquet for Him in his own house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others who were reclining [at the table] with them.30 Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus’ disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and [preeminently] sinful people?31 And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.32 I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but the erring ones (those not free from sin) to repentance [to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins].33 Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of [special] petition, and so do [the disciples] of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink.34 And Jesus said to them, Can you make the wedding guests fast as long as the bridegroom is with them?35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in those days.36 He told them a proverb also: No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment; if he does, he will both tear the new one, and the patch from the new [one] will not match the old [garment].37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.39 And no one after drinking old wine immediately desires new wine, for he says, The old is good or better .