路加福音 5
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
第一批门徒
5 有一次，当人群拥挤着耶稣，听神的话语[a]的时候，他正站在革尼撒勒湖边[b]。 2 他看见湖边停着两条船，渔夫们下了船，正在洗网。 3 有一条船是西门的，耶稣上去，请他把船划出去，稍微离岸。耶稣就坐下来，从船上教导众人。
4 讲完了以后，他对西门说：“把船划到水深的地方，下网捕鱼吧。”
5 西门回答说：“老师，我们劳碌了一整夜，什么也没有捕到。不过按照你的话，我就下网吧。”
6 他们这样做了，网住了一大群鱼，渔网几乎要撑破。 7 他们就招呼另一条船上的伙伴来帮忙；他们过来，装满了两条船，甚至两条船都几乎要沉下去了。
8 西门彼得看见，就俯伏在耶稣脚[c]前，说：“主啊，离开我吧，因为我是个罪人！” 9 那时，他和所有与他一起的人，都对这一网捕到的鱼惊讶不已。 10 西门的伙伴，就是西庇太的儿子雅各和约翰，也同样惊讶。
耶稣对西门说：“不要怕！从今以后，你将得人了[d]。” 11 他们把两条船靠了岸，舍弃一切跟从了耶稣。
洁净麻风病人
12 有一次，耶稣在一个城里，忽然有个浑身长满麻风的人，看见耶稣就把脸伏在地上，央求他说：“主啊，如果你愿意，你就能洁净我。”
13 耶稣伸出手来摸他，说：“我愿意，你洁净了吧！”麻风病立刻离开了他。 14 耶稣吩咐他不要告诉任何人，说：“只要去把自己给祭司看，并且为了你的洁净，照着摩西所吩咐的去献上祭物，好对他们做见证。”
15 耶稣的消息反而越发传开了。有一大群人聚集而来，听他传道[e]，也要他们的病得痊愈。 16 耶稣却常常退到旷野去祷告。
赦罪与治病
17 就在那些日子里，有一天耶稣在教导人的时候，也有些法利赛人和律法教师坐在那里，他们是从加利利和犹太地区的各村庄，以及耶路撒冷来的。主的大能与耶稣同在，使他能医病。 18 这时候，有几个人用床榻抬来一个瘫痪的人，想把他带进去放在耶稣面前。 19 但由于人多，他们没有办法[f]把他带进去，就爬上屋顶，从屋瓦中间把他和床榻一起缒到众人当中，正在耶稣面前。
20 耶稣看见他们的信心，就对瘫痪的人说：“朋友[g]，你的罪孽已经被赦免了。”
21 那些经文士和法利赛人就开始想：“这个人是谁？竟说亵渎的话。除了神一位之外，谁能赦免罪呢？”
22 耶稣知道他们的意念，就对他们说：“你们心里为什么这样想呢？ 23 或说‘你的罪孽已经被赦免了’，或说‘你起来走路’，哪一样更容易呢？ 24 不过为要使你们知道人子在地上有赦免罪的权柄——”耶稣就对瘫痪的人说：“我吩咐你：起来，拿起你的床榻，回家去吧！”
25 那个人立刻在大家面前站了起来，拿起他所躺的床榻回家去，一路上荣耀神。 26 于是大家都惊讶不已，就不住地荣耀神，并且满怀敬畏之心说：“我们今天看到奇妙的事了！”
呼召利未
27 这些事以后，耶稣出去，看到一个名叫利未[h]的税吏，在税关坐着。耶稣对他说：“你跟从我！” 28 利未就撇下一切，站起来跟从了耶稣。
与罪人吃饭
29 利未在自己家里为耶稣预备盛大的宴席，有一大群税吏和其他人与他们一同坐席。 30 法利赛人和他们的经文士就向耶稣的门徒们抱怨，说：“你们为什么与那些税吏和罪人一起吃喝呢？”
31 耶稣对他们说：“健康的人不需要医生，有病的人才需要。 32 我来不是要召唤义人，而是要召唤罪人来悔改。”
禁食的问题
33 他们对耶稣说：“约翰的门徒们经常禁食、祈祷，法利赛人的门徒们也是如此，而你的门徒们却又吃又喝。[i]”
34 耶稣对他们说：“新郎与宾客[j]在一起的时候，难道你们能叫宾客禁食吗？ 35 可是日子将要来到：当新郎从他们中间被带走的时候，他们那时——在那些日子里就要禁食了。”
36 耶稣又对他们讲了一个比喻：“没有人从新衣服上撕下一块布来缝在旧衣服上，否则，他不但撕破了新衣服，而且来自新衣服的那块布与旧衣服不相称。 37 也没有人把新酒装在旧皮袋里，否则新酒会胀破旧皮袋，酒会流出来，皮袋也会糟蹋了。 38 因此，新酒必须装在新皮袋里。[k] 39 没有人喝了陈酒以后想喝新酒，因为他总说：‘还是陈酒好[l]。’”
Footnotes
- 路加福音 5:1 神的话语——或译作“神的道”。
- 路加福音 5:1 革尼撒勒湖——就是“加利利湖”。
- 路加福音 5:8 脚——原文直译“膝”。
- 路加福音 5:10 你将得人了——原文直译“你将是一个捕人的人”。
- 路加福音 5:15 他传道——辅助词语。
- 路加福音 5:19 没有办法——原文直译“找不到办法”。
- 路加福音 5:20 朋友——原文直译“人哪”。
- 路加福音 5:27 利未——就是“马太”。
- 路加福音 5:33 约翰的门徒们……又吃又喝。——有古抄本作“为什么约翰的门徒们……又吃又喝呢？”
- 路加福音 5:34 宾客——或译作“伴郎”；原文直译“新房之子”。
- 路加福音 5:38 有古抄本附“这样两者都保全了。”
- 路加福音 5:39 好——有古抄本作“更好”。
Luke 5
Common English Bible
Jesus calls disciples
5 One day Jesus was standing beside Lake Gennesaret when the crowd pressed in around him to hear God’s word. 2 Jesus saw two boats sitting by the lake. The fishermen had gone ashore and were washing their nets. 3 Jesus boarded one of the boats, the one that belonged to Simon, then asked him to row out a little distance from the shore. Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. 4 When he finished speaking to the crowds, he said to Simon, “Row out farther, into the deep water, and drop your nets for a catch.”
5 Simon replied, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and caught nothing. But because you say so, I’ll drop the nets.”
6 So they dropped the nets and their catch was so huge that their nets were splitting. 7 They signaled for their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They filled both boats so full that they were about to sink. 8 When Simon Peter saw the catch, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Leave me, Lord, for I’m a sinner!” 9 Peter and those with him were overcome with amazement because of the number of fish they caught. 10 James and John, Zebedee’s sons, were Simon’s partners and they were amazed too.
Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on, you will be fishing for people.” 11 As soon as they brought the boats to the shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.
A man with a skin disease
12 Jesus was in one of the towns where there was also a man covered with a skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged, “Lord, if you want, you can make me clean.”
13 Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do want to. Be clean.” Instantly, the skin disease left him. 14 Jesus ordered him not to tell anyone. “Instead,” Jesus said, “go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses instructed. This will be a testimony to them.” 15 News of him spread even more and huge crowds gathered to listen and to be healed from their illnesses. 16 But Jesus would withdraw to deserted places for prayer.
Jesus heals a paralyzed man
17 One day when Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and legal experts were sitting nearby. They had come from every village in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal. 18 Some men were bringing a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot. They wanted to carry him in and place him before Jesus, 19 but they couldn’t reach him because of the crowd. So they took him up on the roof and lowered him—cot and all—through the roof tiles into the crowded room in front of Jesus. 20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 The legal experts and Pharisees began to mutter among themselves, “Who is this who insults God? Only God can forgive sins!”
22 Jesus recognized what they were discussing and responded, “Why do you fill your minds with these questions? 23 Which is easier—to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But so that you will know that the Human One[a] has authority on the earth to forgive sins” —Jesus now spoke to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, get up, take your cot, and go home.” 25 Right away, the man stood before them, picked up his cot, and went home, praising God.
26 All the people were beside themselves with wonder. Filled with awe, they glorified God, saying, “We’ve seen unimaginable things today.”
Jesus calls a tax collector
27 Afterward, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at a kiosk for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
28 Levi got up, left everything behind, and followed him. 29 Then Levi threw a great banquet for Jesus in his home. A large number of tax collectors and others sat down to eat with them. 30 The Pharisees and their legal experts grumbled against his disciples. They said, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. 32 I didn’t come to call righteous people but sinners to change their hearts and lives.”
The old and the new
33 Some people said to Jesus, “The disciples of John fast often and pray frequently. The disciples of the Pharisees do the same, but your disciples are always eating and drinking.”
34 Jesus replied, “You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you? 35 The days will come when the groom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.”
36 Then he told them a parable. “No one tears a patch from a new garment to patch an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t match the old garment. 37 Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would burst the wineskins, the wine would spill, and the wineskins would be ruined. 38 Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins. 39 No one who drinks a well-aged wine wants new wine, but says, ‘The well-aged wine is better.’”
Footnotes
- Luke 5:24 Or Son of Man
Luke 5
The Voice
5 Picture these events:
On the banks of Gennesaret Lake, a huge crowd, Jesus in the center of it, presses in to hear His message from God. 2 Off to the side, fishermen are washing their nets, leaving their boats unattended on the shore.
3 Jesus gets into one of the boats and asks its owner, Simon, to push off and anchor a short distance from the beach. Jesus sits down and teaches the people standing on the beach.
4 After speaking for a while, Jesus speaks to Simon.
Jesus: Move out into deeper water, and drop your nets to see what you’ll catch.
Simon (perplexed): 5 Master, we’ve been fishing all night, and we haven’t caught even a minnow. But . . . all right, I’ll do it if You say so.
6 Simon then gets his fellow fishermen to help him let down their nets, and to their surprise, the water is bubbling with thrashing fish—a huge school. The strands of their nets start snapping under the weight of the catch, 7 so the crew shouts to the other boat to come out and give them a hand. They start scooping fish out of the nets and into their boats, and before long, their boats are so full of fish they almost sink!
The miracles Jesus performs come in all types: He heals the sick. He frees the oppressed. He shows His power over nature. He will even raise the dead. But as the story in verses 21-26 shows, one of the greatest miracles of all is forgiveness. To have sins forgiven—to start over again, to have God separate believers from their mistakes and moral failures, to lift the weight of shame and guilt—this may well be the weightiest evidence that God’s Son is on the move. The kingdom of God doesn’t throw all guilty people in jail; it doesn’t execute everyone who has made mistakes or tell them they’re just getting what they deserve. Instead, it brings forgiveness, reconciliation, a new start, a second chance. In this way, it mobilizes believers to have a new future.
Certainly Jesus has communicated the message of the Kingdom through words and through signs and wonders. Now Jesus embodies the message in the way He treats people, including outcasts like Levi. As a tax collector, Levi is a Jew who works for the Romans, the oppressors, the enemies. No wonder tax collectors are despised! But how does Jesus treat this compromiser? He doesn’t leave him paralyzed in his compromised position; He invites him—like the paralyzed man—to get up and walk, and to walk in a new direction toward a new King and Kingdom.
8-10 Simon’s fishing partners, James and John (two of Zebedee’s sons), along with the rest of the fishermen, see this incredible haul of fish. They’re all stunned, especially Simon. He comes close to Jesus and kneels in front of His knees.
Simon: I can’t take this, Lord. I’m a sinful man. You shouldn’t be around the likes of me.
Jesus: Don’t be afraid, Simon. From now on, I’ll ask you to bring Me people instead of fish.
11 The fishermen haul their fish-heavy boats to land, and they leave everything to follow Jesus.
12 Another time in a city nearby, a man covered with skin lesions comes along. As soon as he sees Jesus, he prostrates himself.
Leper: Lord, if You wish to, You can heal me of my disease.
13 Jesus reaches out His hand and touches the man, something no one would normally do for fear of being infected or of becoming ritually unclean.
Jesus: I want to heal you. Be cleansed!
Immediately the man is cured. 14 Jesus tells him firmly not to tell anyone about this.
Jesus: Go, show yourself to the priest, and do what Moses commanded by making an appropriate offering to celebrate your cleansing. This will prove to everyone what has happened.
15 Even though Jesus said not to talk about what happened, soon every conversation was consumed by these events. The crowds swelled even larger as people went to hear Jesus preach and to be healed of their many afflictions. 16 Jesus repeatedly left the crowds, though, stealing away into the wilderness to pray.
17 One day Jesus was teaching in a house, and the healing power of the Lord was with Him. Pharisees and religious scholars were sitting and listening, having come from villages all across the regions of Galilee and Judea and from the holy city of Jerusalem.
18 Some men came to the house, carrying a paralyzed man on his bed pallet. They wanted to bring him in and present him to Jesus, 19 but the house was so packed with people that they couldn’t get in. So they climbed up on the roof and pulled off some roof tiles. Then they lowered the man by ropes so he came to rest right in front of Jesus.
20 In this way, their faith was visible to Jesus.
Jesus (to the man on the pallet): My friend, all your sins are forgiven.
21 The Pharisees and religious scholars were offended at this. They turned to one another and asked questions.
Pharisees and Religious Scholars: Who does He think He is? Wasn’t that blasphemous? Who can pronounce that a person’s sins are forgiven? Who but God alone?
Jesus (responding with His own question): 22 Why are your hearts full of questions? 23 Which is easier to say, “Your sins are forgiven” or “Get up and walk”? 24 Just so you’ll know that the Son of Man is fully authorized to forgive sins on earth (He turned to the paralyzed fellow lying on the pallet), I say, get up, take your mat, and go home.
25 Then, right in front of their eyes, the man stood up, picked up his bed, and left to go home—full of praises for God! 26 Everyone was stunned. They couldn’t help but feel awestruck, and they praised God too.
People: We’ve seen extraordinary things today.
27 Some time later, Jesus walked along the street and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting in his tax office.
Jesus: Follow Me.
28 And Levi did. He got up from his desk, left everything (just as the fishermen had), and followed Jesus.
29 Shortly after this, Levi invited his many friends and associates, including many tax collectors, to his home for a large feast in Jesus’ honor. Everyone sat at a table together.
The Pharisees are back again, and they stay through the rest of the story. Pharisaism is a religious movement, consisting of lay people (not clergy) who share a deep commitment to the Hebrew Scriptures and traditions. They believe the Jewish people have not yet been freed from the Romans because of the Jews’ tolerance of sin. There are too many drunks, prostitutes, and gluttons. “If we could just get these sinners to change their ways,” they feel, “then God would send the One who will free us.” How angry they are at Jesus not just for forgiving sins but also for eating with sinners! After all, to eat with people means to accept them. The kind of Rescuer they expect will judge and destroy sinners, not forgive them and enjoy their company!
30 The Pharisees and their associates, the religious scholars, got the attention of some of Jesus’ disciples.
Pharisees (in low voices): What’s wrong with you? Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and other immoral people?
Jesus (answering for the disciples): 31 Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. 32 I haven’t come for the pure and upstanding; I’ve come to call notorious sinners to rethink their lives and turn to God.
Pharisees: 33 Explain to us why You and Your disciples are so commonly found partying like this, when our disciples—and even the disciples of John—are known for fasting rather than feasting, and for saying prayers rather than drinking wine.
Jesus: 34 Imagine there’s a wedding going on. Is that the time to tell the guests to ignore the bridegroom and fast? 35 Sure, there’s a time for fasting—when the bridegroom has been taken away. 36 Look, nobody tears up a new garment to make a patch for an old garment. If he did, the new patch would shrink and rip the old, and the old garment would be worse off than before. 37 And nobody takes freshly squeezed juice and puts it into old, stiff wineskins. If he did, the fresh wine would make the old skins burst open, and both the wine and the wineskins would be ruined. 38 New demands new—new wine for new wineskins. 39 Anyway, those who’ve never tasted the new wine won’t know what they’re missing; they’ll always say, “The old wine is good enough for me!”
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