Jesus Calls His First Disciples
1One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,5:1 That is, the Sea of Galilee the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3He 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.
4When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”
5Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”
6When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7So 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.
8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.
Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” 11So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
12While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.5:12 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin. 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.”
13Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
14Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
15Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law 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. 18Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19When 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.
20When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21The 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?”
22Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24But I want you to know that the Son of Man 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.” 25Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
33They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”
34Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
36He 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. 37And 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. 38No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ ”
Yesu Ayitana Ophunzira Oyamba
1Tsiku lina Yesu anayima mʼmbali mwa nyanja ya Genesareti, gulu la anthu litamuzungulira likumvetsera mawu a Mulungu. 2Iye anaona mabwato awiri ali mʼmphepete mwa nyanja, asodzi amene ankachapa makhoka awo atawasiya pamenepo. 3Iye analowa mʼbwato limodzi limene linali la Simoni, ndi kumupempha kuti alikankhire mʼkati mwa nyanja pangʼono. Kenaka Iye anakhala pansi nayamba kuphunzitsa anthu ali mʼbwatomo.
4Atatha kuyankhula anati kwa Simoni, “Kankhirani kwa kuya ndipo muponye makhoka kuti mugwire nsomba.”
5Simoni anayankha kuti, “Ambuye, tagwira ntchito molimbika usiku wonse, koma sitinagwire kanthu. Koma pakuti mwatero, ndiponya makhoka.”
6Atachita izi, anagwira nsomba zambiri kotero kuti makhoka awo anayamba kungʼambika. 7Choncho anakodola anzawo a bwato linalo kuti abwere ndi kuwathandiza, ndipo anabwera nadzaza mabwato onse awiri mpaka kuyamba kumira.
8Simoni Petro ataona izi, anagwa pa mawondo a Yesu nati, “Chokani kwa ine Ambuye: Ine ndine munthu wochimwa!” 9Iye ndi anzake onse anadabwa ndi nsomba zimene anagwira, 10chimodzimodzinso Yakobo ndi Yohane, ana a Zebedayo, anzake a Simoniyo.
Kenaka Yesu anati kwa Simoni, “Musachite mantha; kuyambira tsopano ndidzakusandutsani asodzi a anthu.” 11Kenaka anakokera mabwato awo ku mtunda, nasiya zonse namutsata Iye.
Yesu Achiritsa Munthu Wakhate
12Yesu ali ku mudzi wina, munthu amene anali ndi khate thupi lonse anabwera kwa Iye. Munthuyo ataona Yesu, anagwa chafufumimba ndipo anamupempha Iye kuti, “Ambuye, ngati mukufuna, mukhoza kundiyeretsa.”
13Yesu anatambasula dzanja lake namukhudza munthuyo. Iye anati, “Ine ndikufuna, yeretsedwa!” Ndipo nthawi yomweyo khate lake linachoka.
14Kenaka Yesu anamulamula kuti, “Usawuze wina aliyense, koma pita, kadzionetse kwa wansembe ndi kukapereka nsembe zimene Mose anakulamulirani za kuyeretsedwa kwanu monga umboni kwa iwo.”
15Koma mbiri yake inafalikirabe kwambiri kotero kuti magulu a anthu anabwera kudzamvetsera ndi kuti achiritsidwe ku matenda awo. 16Koma Yesu nthawi zambiri ankachoka kupita ku malo a yekha kukapemphera.
Yesu Achiritsa Wofa Ziwalo
17Tsiku lina pamene ankaphunzitsa, Afarisi ndi aphunzitsi amalamulo, amene anachokera ku midzi yonse ya Galileya ndi ku Yudeya ndi Yerusalemu, anakhala pansi pomwepo. Ndipo mphamvu ya Ambuye inalipo yakuti Iye achiritse odwala. 18Amuna ena anabwera atanyamula munthu wofa ziwalo pa mphasa ndipo anayesa kumulowetsa mʼnyumba kuti amugoneke pamaso pa Yesu. 19Atalephera kupeza njira yochitira zimenezi chifukwa cha gulu la anthu, anakwera naye pa denga ali pa mphasa pomwepo ndi kumutsitsira mʼkati pakati pa gulu la anthu, patsogolo penipeni pa Yesu.
20Yesu ataona chikhulupiriro chawo, anati, “Mnzanga, machimo ako akhululukidwa.”
21Afarisi ndi aphunzitsi amalamulo anayamba kuganiza mwa iwo okha kuti, “Kodi munthu uyu ndi ndani amene ayankhula zamwano? Kodi ndani amene angakhululukire machimo kupatula Mulungu?”
22Yesu anadziwa zomwe iwo amaganiza ndipo anafunsa kuti, “Kodi ndi chifukwa chiyani mukuganiza zimenezi mʼmitima mwanu? 23Kodi chapafupi ndi chiti: kunena kuti, ‘Machimo ako akhululukidwa,’ kapena kunena kuti, ‘Nyamuka ndipo yenda?’ ” 24Koma kuti inu mudziwe kuti Mwana wa Munthu ali ndi ulamuliro pa dziko lapansi wokhululukira machimo, Iye anati kwa munthu wofa ziwaloyo, “Ine ndikuwuza iwe kuti, ‘Imirira, nyamula mphasa ndipo uzipita kwanu.’ ” 25Nthawi yomweyo anayimirira patsogolo pawo, nanyamula mphasa yake ndipo anapita kwawo akuyamika Mulungu. 26Aliyense anadabwa ndi kuchita mantha ndipo anayamika Mulungu. Iwo anadabwa kwambiri ndipo anati, “Lero taona zinthu zosayiwalika.”
Kuyitanidwa kwa Levi
27Zitatha izi, Yesu anachoka ndipo anaona wolandira msonkho dzina lake Levi atakhala mʼnyumba ya msonkho. Yesu anati kwa iye, “Nditsate Ine.” 28Ndipo Levi anayimirira, nasiya zonse ndi kumutsata Iye.
29Kenaka Levi anakonzera Yesu phwando lalikulu ku nyumba yake ndipo gulu lalikulu la amisonkho ndi ena ankadya naye pamodzi. 30Koma Afarisi ndi aphunzitsi amalamulo amene anali a gulu lawo anadandaula kwa ophunzira ake, “Kodi ndi chifukwa chiyani mukudya ndi kumwa pamodzi ndi amisonkho ndi ochimwa?”
31Yesu anawayankha kuti, “Amene sakudwala safuna singʼanga, koma odwala. 32Ine sindinabwere kudzayitana olungama, koma ochimwa kuti atembenuke mtima.”
Yesu Afunsidwa za Kusala Kudya
33Iwo anati kwa Iye, “Ophunzira a Yohane amasala kudya ndi kupemphera kawirikawiri, monganso ophunzira a Afarisi, koma anu amangodya ndi kumwa.”
34Yesu anawayankha kuti, “Kodi alendo a mkwati angasale kudya pamene mkwati ali pakati pawo? 35Koma nthawi ikubwera pamene mkwati adzachotsedwa pakati pawo. Masiku amenewo adzasala kudya.”
36Iye anawawuza fanizo ili: “Palibe amene amangʼamba chigamba kuchokera pa chovala chatsopano ndi kuchisokerera pa chakale. Ngati atatero, ndiye kuti adzangʼamba chovala chatsopanocho, ndipo chigamba chochokera pa chovala chatsopano chija sichidzagwirizana ndi chakale. 37Ndipo palibe amene amakhuthulira vinyo watsopano mʼmatumba a vinyo akale. Ngati atatero, vinyo watsopanoyo adzaphulitsa zikopazo, vinyo adzatayika ndipo zikopa za vinyozo zidzawonongeka. 38Ayi, vinyo watsopano ayenera kuthiridwa mʼmatumba a vinyo azikopa zatsopano. 39Ndipo palibe amene atamwa vinyo wakale amafuna watsopano, pakuti amati, ‘Wakale ndi okoma.’ ”
