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1 Días más tarde, Jesús regresó a Capernaúm. La noticia de que estaba en casa se esparció rápidamente.
1 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.
2 Y pronto la gente llenó tanto la casa que no quedó sitio para nadie más ni siquiera frente a la puerta. Y él predicaba la palabra.
2 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
3 Entonces llegaron cuatro hombres llevando a un paralítico.
3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
4 Como no pudieron pasar entre la multitud para llegar a Jesús, subieron a la azotea, hicieron una abertura en el techo, exactamente encima de donde estaba Jesús, y entre los cuatro bajaron la camilla en la que yacía el paralítico.
4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
5 Cuando Jesús vio la fe de ellos, le dijo al paralítico: ―Hijo, tus pecados quedan perdonados.
5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
6 Algunos maestros de la ley que estaban allí sentados pensaron:
6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7 «¿Cómo se atreve a hablar así? ¡Eso es una blasfemia! ¡Dios es el único que puede perdonar los pecados!».
7 “Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 Jesús les leyó el pensamiento y les dijo: ―¿Por qué piensan ustedes así?
8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
9 ¿Qué es más fácil, decirle al paralítico “tus pecados quedan perdonados” o decirle: “Levántate, toma tu camilla y anda”?
9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’?
10 Pues voy a probarles que yo, el Hijo del hombre, tengo potestad para perdonar los pecados. Entonces se dirigió al paralítico y le dijo:
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
11 ―A ti te digo, levántate, recoge la camilla y vete.
11 “I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
12 El hombre se levantó de inmediato, tomó su camilla y se abrió paso entre la asombrada concurrencia que, entre alabanzas a Dios, exclamaba: ―Jamás habíamos visto nada parecido.
12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
13 Jesús salió de nuevo a la orilla del lago y allí le enseñaba al gentío que acudía a él.
13 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
14 Caminando por el lugar, vio a Leví, hijo de Alfeo, sentado en la mesa donde cobraba los impuestos. ―Sígueme —le dijo Jesús. Y Leví se levantó y lo siguió.
14 As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.
15 Leví invitó a Jesús y a sus discípulos a comer. También invitó a comer a muchos cobradores de impuestos y a otros pecadores. Ya eran muchos los que seguían a Jesús.
15 He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
16 Cuando algunos de los maestros de la ley, que eran fariseos, vieron a Jesús comiendo con aquella gente, les preguntaron a los discípulos: ―¿Cómo es que este come con recaudadores de impuestos y con pecadores?
16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 Jesús, que oyó lo que decían, les replicó: ―Los enfermos son los que necesitan médico, no los sanos. No he venido a llamar a los justos sino a los pecadores.
17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
18 Al ver que los discípulos de Juan y los de los fariseos ayunaban, algunos se acercaron a Jesús y le preguntaron: ―¿Por qué tus discípulos no ayunan también?
18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
19 Jesús les respondió: ―¿Se abstendrán acaso de comer en un banquete de bodas los amigos del novio mientras el novio esté con ellos?
19 Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
20 Llegará el momento cuando el novio les será quitado, y entonces ayunarán.
20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
21 Nadie remienda un vestido viejo con una tela nueva, porque el parche se encoge y rompe el vestido, y la rotura que queda es mayor que la anterior.
21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
22 ¿Y a quién se le ocurriría poner vino nuevo en odres viejos? El vino nuevo reventaría los odres y se perderían el vino y los odres. El vino nuevo se echa en odres nuevos.
22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
23 Un día de reposo, pasaron por los trigales Jesús y sus discípulos, y estos se pusieron a arrancar espigas.
23 He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
24 Los fariseos le preguntaron a Jesús: ―¿Por qué hacen ellos lo que está prohibido hacer en el día de reposo?
24 The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
25 Jesús les respondió: ―¿Nunca han leído lo que hizo David una vez que él y sus compañeros tuvieron hambre?
25 He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?
26 Cuando Abiatar era el sumo sacerdote, David entró en la casa de Dios y comió de los panes consagrados a Dios, que sólo los sacerdotes podían comer. Y no sólo comió él, sino que también dio a sus compañeros.
26 How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”
27 »El sábado se hizo para el ser humano y no el ser humano para el sábado.
27 He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
28 Por eso, el Hijo del hombre es Señor incluso del sábado».
28 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Alphaeus
Named as father of James, one of the Twelve (Matthew 10:3), and as the father of Levi the tax collector (Mark 2:14); the text does not say whether these are two different men…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 10:3; Mark 2:14; Mark 3:18
Matthew
A tax collector sitting at the tax booth whom Jesus told 'Follow Me'; Matthew calls him Matthew, while Mark and Luke tell the same call and name him Levi, and Mark 2:14 calls Levi…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 9:9; Matthew 10:3; Mark 2:14
Places
Capernaum
A fishing and customs town on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus healed, taught, and called disciples. Its ruins include a 4th–5th c. synagogue built over an earlier one.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 4:13; Mark 2:1; Matthew 11:23
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Luke 5:18; John 4:47; Luke 18:35–38; Matthew 9:1; Mark 7:24
- 2 Mark 2:13; Mark 1:45; Mark 6:34; Mark 1:33; Mark 4:1–2
- 3 Luke 5:18–26; Matthew 9:1–8; Matthew 4:24
- 4 Luke 5:19; Deuteronomy 22:8
- 5 Matthew 9:2; James 5:15; Mark 2:9–10; Luke 7:47–50; Luke 5:20
- 6 Luke 5:21–22; Mark 8:17; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Matthew 16:7–8
- 7 Isaiah 43:25; Luke 5:21; Daniel 9:9; Micah 7:18; Luke 7:49
- 8 Psalm 139:2; Ezekiel 38:10; John 2:24–25; John 6:64; Luke 24:38
- 9 Luke 5:22–25; Matthew 9:5
- 10 Daniel 7:13–14; Matthew 9:6–8; Acts 5:31; John 5:20–27; 1 Timothy 1:13–16
- 11 Mark 1:41; John 5:8–10; John 6:63
- 12 Matthew 9:33; Matthew 9:8; Luke 7:16; John 9:32; John 7:31
- 13 Proverbs 1:20–22; Mark 4:1; Luke 21:38; Mark 3:20–21; Mark 2:2
- 14 Luke 5:27–32; Mark 1:17–20; Luke 6:15; Matthew 9:9–13; Mark 3:18
- 15 Luke 15:1; Matthew 9:10–11; Luke 5:29–30; Matthew 21:31–32; Luke 6:17
- 16 Luke 18:11; Luke 19:7; Luke 19:10; Acts 23:9; Isaiah 65:5
- 17 Luke 15:7; Matthew 9:12–13; Luke 19:10; Luke 5:31–32; 1 Timothy 1:15–16
- 18 Luke 18:12; Matthew 6:18; Matthew 9:14–17; Matthew 6:16; Luke 5:33–39
- 19 Matthew 25:1–10; Genesis 29:22; Judges 14:10–11
- 20 Luke 17:22; Revelation 21:9; Isaiah 62:5; Revelation 19:7; Zechariah 13:7
- 21 Matthew 9:16; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Isaiah 57:16; Psalm 103:13–15
- 22 Matthew 9:17; Psalm 119:83; Luke 5:37–38; Job 32:19; Joshua 9:4
- 23 Deuteronomy 23:24–25; Matthew 12:1–8; Luke 6:1–5
- 24 Exodus 20:10; Hebrews 12:3; Matthew 12:2; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 31:15
- 25 1 Samuel 21:3–6; Luke 10:26
- 26 2 Samuel 8:17; Leviticus 24:5–9; 1 Samuel 21:1; 1 Chronicles 24:6; 1 Kings 2:26–27
- 27 Colossians 2:16; Luke 6:9; Deuteronomy 5:14; Ezekiel 20:12; Isaiah 58:13
- 28 Matthew 12:8; Revelation 1:10; John 9:14; John 5:17; Ephesians 1:22
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Thy bed did carry thee, thou carriedst not thy bed, but wast a paralytic inwardly; He cometh who saith to thee, "Take up thy bed, and go thy way into thy house." "The Lord help him on his bed of pain." Then to the Lord Himself He turneth, as though it were asked, Why then, since the Lord helpeth us, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Now Matthew indeed saith, that "they brought him," but the others, that they also broke up the roof, and let him down. And they put the sick man before Christ, saying nothing, but committing the whole to Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Or in another sense they are used of a thing which is not reasonable; as, Can the Children of the Bridechamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them; whether He be considered as visible in bodily form (for the time of His sojourning among us was not one of mourning, but of gladness), or, as the Word.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Upon their murmuring, then, and saying, "This man blasphemeth; who can forgive sins but God only?" let us see what He saith.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And we have cause also to admire the self-denial of the evangelist, how he disguises not his own former life, but adds even his name, when the others had concealed him under another appellation. But why did he say he was "sitting at the receipt of custom?" To indicate the power of Him that called him, that it was not …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)