5:1And it was done: when the crowds pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he himself was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret. 5:2And he saw two ships standing beside the lake: but the fishermen had gone down, and were washing the nets. 5:3And going up into one ship, which was Simon's, he asked him to put back a little from the land. 5:3And sitting, he was teaching the crowds from the little ship. 5:4And when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon: "Lead out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch." 5:5And answering, Simon said to him: "Master, labouring through the whole night we have caught nothing: but at your word I will let down the net."
5:6And when they had done this, they enclosed an abundant multitude of fish: and their net was breaking. 5:7And they nodded to their partners, who were in the other ship, to come and help them. 5:7And they came, and filled both little ships, so that they were almost sinking. 5:8And when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying: "Go out from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord." 5:9For amazement had surrounded him, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken: and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. 5:10And Jesus said to Simon: "Do not be afraid: from this time now you will be catching people."
5:11And the ships having been brought up to land, all things having been left, they followed him. 5:12And it was done: when he was in one of the cities, and look, a man full of leprosy, and seeing Jesus, and falling down on his face, asked him, saying: "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean." 5:13And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying: "I am willing: be made clean." 5:13And at once the leprosy departed from him. 5:14And he ordered him that he should tell no one: "But go, show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses ordered, as a testimony to them."
5:15But the talk about him was going about all the more: and many crowds were coming together to hear, and to be cured of their sicknesses. 5:16But he was withdrawing into the desert, and was praying. 5:17And it was done on one of the days, and he was sitting, teaching. 5:17And there were Pharisees sitting, and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee, and of Judea, and of Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was there for healing them. 5:18And look, men carrying on a bed a man who was paralysed: and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place him before him.
5:19And not finding by what way they might bring him in because of the crowd, they went up onto the roof, and through the tiles they let him down with the bed into the middle, before Jesus. 5:20And when he saw their faith, he said: "Man, your sins are forgiven you." 5:21And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: "Who is this, who speaks blasphemies? 5:21Who can forgive sins, except God alone?" 5:22But when Jesus recognized their thoughts, answering, he said to them: "What are you thinking in your hearts? 5:23Which is easier, to say: 'Your sins are forgiven you': or to say: 'Get up, and walk'? 5:24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth of forgiving sins" (he says to the paralysed man), "to you I say, get up, lift your bed, and go into your house."
5:25And at once rising up before them, he lifted the bed on which he was lying: and he went away into his house, magnifying God. 5:26And amazement seized all, and they were magnifying God. 5:26And they were filled with fear, saying: "We have seen wonderful things today." 5:27And after these things he went out, and saw a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him: "Follow me." 5:28And all things having been left, rising up he followed him. 5:29And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and there was a large crowd of tax collectors, and of others who were reclining with them.
5:30And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling, saying to his disciples: "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" 5:31And answering, Jesus said to them: "Those who are healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill. 5:32I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance." 5:33But they said to him: "Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, likewise also those of the Pharisees: but yours eat and drink?" 5:34And he said to them: "Surely you cannot make the sons of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 5:35But days will come, when the bridegroom has been taken away from them: then they will fast in those days."
5:36And he was also telling a comparison to them: "No one puts a patch from a new garment into an old garment: otherwise he both tears the new, and the patch from the new does not suit the old. 5:37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins: otherwise the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will itself be poured out, and the wineskins will perish: but new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 5:39And no one drinking old wine at once wants new: for he says: 'The old is better.'"