Four Fishermen Called as Disciples(A)

So (B)it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to (C)hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He (D)sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, (E)“Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught (F)nothing; nevertheless (G)at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, (H)“Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

For he and all who were with him were (I)astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken; 10 and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. (J)From now on you will catch men.” 11 So when they had brought their boats to land, (K)they [a]forsook all and followed Him.

Jesus Cleanses a Leper(L)

12 (M)And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of (N)leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and [b]implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” (O)Immediately the leprosy left him. 14 (P)And He charged him to tell no one, “But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them, (Q)just as Moses commanded.”

15 However, (R)the report went around concerning Him all the more; and (S)great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. 16 (T)So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and (U)prayed.

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic(V)

17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present [c]to heal them. 18 (W)Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. 19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst (X)before Jesus.

20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

21 (Y)And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? (Z)Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

22 But when Jesus (AA)perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, (AB)“I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”

25 Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, (AC)glorifying God. 26 And they were all amazed, and they (AD)glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”

Matthew the Tax Collector(AE)

27 (AF)After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, (AG)“Follow Me.” 28 So he left all, rose up, and (AH)followed Him.

29 (AI)Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And (AJ)there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. 30 [d]And their scribes and the Pharisees [e]complained against His disciples, saying, (AK)“Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 (AL)I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting(AM)

33 Then they said to Him, (AN)“Why[f] do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”

34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the (AO)bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”

36 (AP)Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one [g]puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, [h]and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, [i]immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is [j]better.’ ”

Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:11 left behind
  2. Luke 5:12 begged
  3. Luke 5:17 NU with Him to heal
  4. Luke 5:30 NU But the Pharisees and their scribes
  5. Luke 5:30 grumbled
  6. Luke 5:33 NU omits Why do, making the verse a statement
  7. Luke 5:36 NU tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old one
  8. Luke 5:38 NU omits and both are preserved
  9. Luke 5:39 NU omits immediately
  10. Luke 5:39 NU good

La pêche miraculeuse

Un jour, Jésus se trouvait au bord du lac de Génésareth et la foule se pressait autour de lui pour entendre la parole de Dieu. Il vit au bord du lac deux barques; les pêcheurs en étaient descendus pour laver leurs filets. Il monta dans l'une de ces barques, qui appartenait à Simon, et il le pria de s'éloigner un peu du rivage. Puis il s'assit, et de la barque il enseignait la foule.

Quand il eut fini de parler, il dit à Simon: «Avance là où l'eau est profonde et jetez vos filets pour pêcher.» Simon lui répondit: «Maître, nous avons travaillé toute la nuit sans rien prendre; mais sur ta parole, je jetterai les filets.» Ils les jetèrent et prirent une grande quantité de poissons, et leurs filets se déchiraient. Ils firent signe à leurs compagnons qui étaient dans l'autre barque de venir les aider. Ils vinrent et remplirent les deux barques, au point qu'elles s'enfonçaient. Quand il vit cela, Simon Pierre tomba aux genoux de Jésus et dit: «Seigneur, éloigne-toi de moi, parce que je suis un homme pécheur.» En effet, lui et tous ceux qui étaient avec lui étaient remplis de frayeur à cause de la pêche qu'ils avaient faite. 10 Il en allait de même pour Jacques et Jean, les fils de Zébédée, les associés de Simon. Jésus dit à Simon: «N’aie pas peur, désormais tu seras pêcheur d'hommes.» 11 Alors ils ramenèrent les barques à terre, laissèrent tout et le suivirent.

Guérison d’un lépreux et d’un paralysé

12 Alors que Jésus était dans une des villes, un homme couvert de lèpre le vit, tomba le visage contre terre et lui adressa cette prière: «Seigneur, si tu le veux, tu peux me rendre pur.» 13 Jésus tendit la main, le toucha et dit: «Je le veux, sois pur.» Aussitôt la lèpre le quitta. 14 Puis Jésus lui ordonna de n'en parler à personne. «Mais, dit-il, va te montrer au prêtre et offre pour ta purification ce que Moïse a prescrit, afin que cela leur serve de témoignage.»

15 On parlait de plus en plus de lui et les gens venaient en foule pour l'entendre et pour être guéris [par lui] de leurs maladies. 16 Mais lui, il se retirait dans les déserts et priait.

17 Un jour, Jésus enseignait. Des pharisiens[a] et des professeurs de la loi, venus de tous les villages de la Galilée, de la Judée et de Jérusalem, étaient assis là et la puissance du Seigneur se manifestait par des guérisons. 18 Et voici que des hommes qui portaient un paralysé sur une civière cherchaient à le faire entrer et à le placer devant Jésus. 19 Comme ils n'avaient pas trouvé moyen de l'introduire à cause de la foule, ils montèrent sur le toit et, par une ouverture, ils le descendirent sur sa civière au milieu de l'assemblée, devant Jésus. 20 Voyant leur foi, Jésus dit: «Mon ami, tes péchés te sont pardonnés.» 21 Les spécialistes de la loi et les pharisiens se mirent à raisonner et à dire: «Qui est cet homme qui profère des blasphèmes? Qui peut pardonner les péchés, si ce n'est Dieu seul?» 22 Jésus connaissait leurs pensées; il prit la parole et leur dit: «Pourquoi raisonnez-vous ainsi dans vos cœurs? 23 Qu'est-ce qui est le plus facile à dire: ‘Tes péchés [te] sont pardonnés’, ou: ‘Lève-toi et marche’? 24 Afin que vous sachiez que le Fils de l'homme[b] a sur la terre le pouvoir de pardonner les péchés, je te l'ordonne – dit-il au paralysé –, lève-toi, prends ta civière et rentre chez toi.» 25 Celui-ci se leva immédiatement en leur présence, prit la civière sur laquelle il était couché et rentra chez lui en rendant gloire à Dieu. 26 Tous étaient dans l'étonnement et célébraient la gloire de Dieu; remplis de crainte, ils disaient: «Nous avons vu aujourd'hui des choses extraordinaires.»

Réactions face à Jésus

27 Après cela, Jésus sortit et il vit un collecteur d’impôts du nom de Lévi assis au bureau des taxes. Il lui dit: «Suis-moi.» 28 Et laissant tout, il se leva et le suivit. 29 Lévi lui offrit un grand festin dans sa maison, et beaucoup de collecteurs d’impôts et d'autres personnes étaient à table avec eux. 30 Les pharisiens et leurs spécialistes de la loi murmurèrent et dirent à ses disciples: «Pourquoi mangez-vous et buvez-vous avec les collecteurs d’impôts et les pécheurs?» 31 Jésus prit la parole et leur dit: «Ce ne sont pas les gens en bonne santé qui ont besoin de médecin, mais les malades. 32 Je ne suis pas venu appeler des justes, mais des pécheurs, à changer d’attitude.»

33 Ils lui dirent: «Pourquoi les disciples de Jean, tout comme ceux des pharisiens, jeûnent-ils fréquemment et font-ils des prières, tandis que les tiens mangent et boivent?» 34 Jésus leur répondit: «Pouvez-vous faire jeûner les invités à la noce pendant que le marié est avec eux? 35 Les jours viendront où le marié leur sera enlevé, alors ils jeûneront durant ces jours-là.» 36 Il leur dit aussi une parabole[c]: «Personne ne déchire un morceau de tissu d'un habit neuf pour le mettre à un vieil habit, sinon il déchire l'habit neuf et le morceau qu'il en a pris n'est pas assorti avec le vieux. 37 Et personne ne met du vin nouveau dans de vieilles outres, sinon le vin nouveau fait éclater les outres, il coule et les outres sont perdues. 38 Mais il faut mettre le vin nouveau dans des outres neuves [et les deux se conservent]. 39 Et [aussitôt] après avoir bu du vin vieux, personne ne veut du nouveau, car il dit: ‘Le vieux est meilleur.’»

Footnotes

  1. Luc 5:17 Pharisiens: membres d’un courant du judaïsme caractérisé par un fort intérêt pour les questions de pureté rituelle et par le souci de respecter le plus strictement possible la loi de Moïse ainsi que les traditions.
  2. Luc 5:24 Fils de l’homme: expression par laquelle Jésus se désignait fréquemment lui-même, avec une probable allusion à Daniel 7.13.
  3. Luc 5:36 Parabole: histoire visant à faire comprendre une vérité spirituelle au moyen d’un exemple tiré de la vie courante.

Jesus Calls His First Disciples(A)

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.(B) He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.(C)

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”(D)

Simon answered, “Master,(E) we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.(F) But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.(G) So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”(H) For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.

Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid;(I) from now on you will fish for people.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.(J)

Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy(K)

12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.[b](L) When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

14 Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone,(M) but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded(N) for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

15 Yet the news about him spread all the more,(O) so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.(P)

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man(Q)

17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law(R) were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.(S) 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”(T)

21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”(U)

22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man(V) has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God.(W) They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners(X)

27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,”(Y) Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.(Z)

29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors(AA) and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect(AB) complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”(AC)

31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”(AD)

Jesus Questioned About Fasting(AE)

33 They said to him, “John’s disciples(AF) often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom(AG) fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them;(AH) in those days they will fast.”

36 He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”

Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:1 That is, the Sea of Galilee
  2. Luke 5:12 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.