Luke 5 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Factum est autem, cum turbæ irruerunt in eum ut audirent verbum Dei, et ipse stabat secus stagnum Genesareth.
1 Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
2 Et vidit duas naves stantes secus stagnum: piscatores autem descenderant, et lavabant retia.
2 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
3 Ascendens autem in unam navim, quæ erat Simonis, rogavit eum a terra reducere pusillum. Et sedens docebat de navicula turbas.
3 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
4 Ut cessavit autem loqui, dixit ad Simonem: Duc in altum, et laxate retia vestra in capturam.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
5 Et respondens Simon, dixit illi: Præceptor, per totam noctem laborantes nihil cepimus: in verbo autem tuo laxabo rete.
5 Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
6 Et cum hoc fecissent, concluserunt piscium multitudinem copiosam: rumpebatur autem rete eorum.
6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
7 Et annuerunt sociis, qui erant in alia navi, ut venirent, et adjuvarent eos. Et venerunt, et impleverunt ambas naviculas, ita ut pene mergerentur.
7 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
8 Quod cum videret Simon Petrus, procidit ad genua Jesu, dicens: Exi a me, quia homo peccator sum, Domine.
8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
9 Stupor enim circumdederat eum, et omnes qui cum illo erant, in captura piscium, quam ceperant:
9 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
10 similiter autem Jacobum et Joannem, filios Zebedæi, qui erant socii Simonis. Et ait ad Simonem Jesus: Noli timere: ex hoc jam homines eris capiens.
10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
11 Et subductis ad terram navibus, relictis omnibus, secuti sunt eum.
11 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
12 Et factum est, cum esset in una civitatum, et ecce vir plenus lepra, et videns Jesum, et procidens in faciem, rogavit eum, dicens: Domine, si vis, potes me mundare.
12 While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
13 Et extendens manum, tetigit eum dicens: Volo: mundare. Et confestim lepra discessit ab illo.
13 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
14 Et ipse præcepit illi ut nemini diceret: sed, Vade, ostende te sacerdoti, et offer pro emundatione tua, sicut præcepit Moyses, in testimonium illis.
14 He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
15 Perambulabat autem magis sermo de illo: et conveniebant turbæ multæ ut audirent, et curarentur ab infirmitatibus suis.
15 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
16 Ipse autem secedebat in desertum, et orabat.
16 But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
17 Et factum est in una dierum, et ipse sedebat docens. Et erant pharisæi sedentes, et legis doctores, qui venerant ex omni castello Galilææ, et Judææ, et Jerusalem: et virtus Domini erat ad sanandum eos.
17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
18 Et ecce viri portantes in lecto hominem, qui erat paralyticus: et quærebant eum inferre, et ponere ante eum.
18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
19 Et non invenientes qua parte illum inferrent præ turba, ascenderunt supra tectum, et per tegulas summiserunt eum cum lecto in medium ante Jesum.
19 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.
20 Quorum fidem ut vidit, dixit: Homo, remittuntur tibi peccata tua.
20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21 Et cœperunt cogitare scribæ et pharisæi, dicentes: Quis est hic, qui loquitur blasphemias? quis potest dimittere peccata, nisi solus Deus?
21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
22 Ut cognovit autem Jesus cogitationes eorum, respondens, dixit ad illos: Quid cogitatis in cordibus vestris?
22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
23 Quid est facilius dicere: Dimittuntur tibi peccata: an dicere: Surge, et ambula?
23 Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?
24 Ut autem sciatis quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, (ait paralytico) tibi dico, surge, tolle lectum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.
24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”
25 Et confestim consurgens coram illis, tulit lectum in quo jacebat: et abiit in domum suam, magnificans Deum.
25 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
26 Et stupor apprehendit omnes, et magnificabant Deum. Et repleti sunt timore, dicentes: Quia vidimus mirabilia hodie.
26 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
27 Et post hæc exiit, et vidit publicanum nomine Levi, sedentem ad telonium, et ait illi: Sequere me.
27 After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”
28 Et relictis omnibus, surgens secutus est eum.
28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
29 Et fecit ei convivium magnum Levi in domo sua: et erat turba multa publicanorum, et aliorum qui cum illis erant discumbentes.
29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
30 Et murmurabant pharisæi et scribæ eorum, dicentes ad discipulos ejus: Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducatis et bibitis?
30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Et respondens Jesus, dixit ad illos: Non egent qui sani sunt medico, sed qui male habent.
31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
32 Non veni vocare justos, sed peccatores ad pœnitentiam.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
33 At illi dixerunt ad eum: Quare discipuli Joannis jejunant frequenter, et obsecrationes faciunt, similiter et pharisæorum: tui autem edunt et bibunt?
33 They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
34 Quibus ipse ait: Numquid potestis filios sponsi, dum cum illis est sponsus, facere jejunare?
34 He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
35 Venient autem dies, cum ablatus fuerit ab illis sponsus: tunc jejunabunt in illis diebus.
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
36 Dicebat autem et similitudinem ad illos: Quia nemo commissuram a novo vestimento immittit in vestimentum vetus: alioquin et novum rumpit, et veteri non convenit commissura a novo.
36 He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
37 Et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres: alioquin rumpet vinum novum utres, et ipsum effundetur, et utres peribunt:
37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.
38 sed vinum novum in utres novos mittendum est, et utraque conservantur.
38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
39 Et nemo bibens vetus, statim vult novum: dicit enim: Vetus melius est.
39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
Cross references (39)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Mark 1:16–20; Matthew 4:18–22; Mark 3:9; Matthew 14:34; Mark 6:53
- 2 Mark 1:19; Matthew 4:21
- 3 Matthew 4:18; Matthew 13:1–2; John 1:41–42; Mark 4:1–2; John 8:2
- 4 John 21:6; Matthew 17:27
- 5 John 2:5; John 15:14; Luke 6:46–48; 2 Kings 5:10–14; Ezekiel 37:4–7
- 6 John 21:6–11; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Ecclesiastes 11:6; 2 Kings 4:3–7; Galatians 6:9
- 7 Galatians 6:2; Philippians 4:3; Acts 11:25; Romans 16:2–4; Exodus 23:5
- 8 Isaiah 6:5; Revelation 1:17; Job 42:5–6; Job 40:4; Judges 13:22
- 9 Psalm 8:8; Mark 9:6; Luke 4:32; Psalm 8:6; Luke 4:36
- 10 Matthew 4:19; Matthew 13:47; Ezekiel 47:9–10; Mark 1:17; Luke 5:7
- 11 Matthew 4:20; Luke 18:28–30; Matthew 19:27; Mark 10:21; Luke 5:28
- 12 Psalm 50:15; Matthew 8:2–4; Luke 17:16; Matthew 9:28; Mark 1:40–45
- 13 Matthew 9:29–30; John 4:50–53; 2 Kings 5:14; Ezekiel 36:29; Ezekiel 36:25–27
- 14 Leviticus 14:2–32; Luke 17:14; Matthew 8:4; Mark 1:44; Leviticus 13:2
- 15 Matthew 15:30–31; Luke 12:1; Matthew 4:23–25; Matthew 9:26; Mark 1:45–2:2
- 16 Mark 1:35–36; Luke 6:12; Matthew 14:23; Mark 6:46; John 6:15
- 17 Luke 6:19; Luke 8:46; Acts 19:11; Matthew 11:5; Mark 5:30
- 18 Matthew 9:2–8; Mark 2:3–12; John 5:5–6; Acts 9:33
- 19 Mark 2:4; Matthew 10:27; Matthew 24:17; Deuteronomy 22:8; 2 Samuel 11:2
- 20 Acts 14:9; Matthew 9:2; Colossians 3:13; James 2:18; Luke 7:48
- 21 Isaiah 43:25; Mark 2:6–7; Acts 6:11–13; Luke 7:49; John 10:33
- 22 Matthew 9:4; Acts 5:3; Luke 24:38; Matthew 12:25; Mark 8:17
- 23 Mark 2:9; Matthew 9:5
- 24 Isaiah 53:11; Acts 9:40; Acts 14:10; Revelation 1:13; Acts 9:34
- 25 Psalm 107:20–22; Psalm 103:1–3; John 9:24; Psalm 33:9; Psalm 50:23
- 26 Matthew 9:8; Jeremiah 33:9; Acts 4:21; Matthew 12:23; Mark 2:12
- 27 Mark 2:13–22; Matthew 9:9–17; Mark 3:18; Matthew 10:3; John 1:43
- 28 Luke 5:11; 1 Kings 19:19–21; Matthew 19:22–27; Luke 9:59–62
- 29 Mark 2:15; 1 Corinthians 10:27; Luke 15:1; Matthew 9:10; John 12:2
- 30 Acts 23:9; Luke 15:1–2; Matthew 21:28–32; Luke 7:29–30; Luke 19:7
- 31 Mark 2:17; Matthew 9:12–13; Jeremiah 8:22
- 32 Luke 19:10; Luke 15:10; 1 Timothy 1:15–16; Luke 15:7; Acts 3:19
- 33 Matthew 9:14–17; Mark 2:18–22; John 3:25; Romans 10:2–3; Luke 18:12
- 34 John 3:29; Matthew 25:1–10; Revelation 19:7–9; Song of Songs 5:8; Song of Songs 2:6–7
- 35 Acts 14:23; Luke 17:22; John 16:4–7; Acts 3:21; Isaiah 22:12
- 36 Matthew 9:16–17; Mark 2:21–22; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:11
- 37 Psalm 119:83; Joshua 9:13; Joshua 9:4
- 38 Hebrews 8:8–13; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ezekiel 36:26; Revelation 21:5; Galatians 5:1–6
- 39 Hebrews 11:39; Jeremiah 6:16; Romans 4:11–12; Mark 7:7–13; Hebrews 11:1–2
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
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There the multitude of fishes caught was so great, that the two vessels were filled and began to sink, that is, were weighed down to the point of sinking; for they did not actually sink, but were in extreme jeopardy.
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… Father at one time the Founder of the world, and at another Him who is above this one, as He does Himself declare: "No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old one, nor do they put new wine into old bottles." Let these men, therefore, either have nothing whatever to do with the prophets, as with …
Let me, as far as I am able, do that which was praised in those who opened the roof, and let down the sick of the palsy before Christ; that He might say unto him, "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee." For it was so that He made the inner man whole of his palsy, by …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)