Matthew 9

¹ And, stepping into a ship, He ferries over and came into His own city. ² And lo! they brought to Him a paralytic, prostrate on a couch. And Jesus, perceiving their faith, said to the paralytic, "Courage, child! Pardoned are your sins!" ³ And lo! some of the scribes say among themselves, "This man is blaspheming!" ⁴ And Jesus, perceiving their sentiments, said, "Why are you brooding wickedness in your hearts? ⁵ For what is easier, to be saying, 'Pardoned are your sins', or to be saying, 'Rouse and walk'? ⁶ Now, that you may be perceiving that the Son of Mankind has authority on earth to pardon sins" - then He is saying to the paralytic, "Being roused, pick up your couch and go into your house." ⁷ And, being roused, he came away into his house. ⁸ Now, on perceiving it, the throngs were afraid, and they glorify God, Who is giving such authority to men. ⁹ And Jesus, passing by thence, perceived a man termed Matthew sitting at the tribute office, and He is saying to him, "Follow Me!" And, rising, he follows Him. ¹⁰ And it came, at His lying back at table in the house, and lo! many tribute collectors and sinners, coming, lay back at the table together with Jesus and His disciples. ¹¹ And, perceiving it, the Pharisees said to His disciples, "Wherefore is your teacher eating with tribute collectors and sinners?" ¹² Now hearing, He said, "No need have the strong of a physician, but those having an illness. ¹³ Now go, learn what this is: 'Mercy am I wanting, and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the just but sinners." ¹⁴ Then coming to Him are the disciples of John, saying, "Wherefore are we and the Pharisees fasting much, yet your disciples are not fasting?" ¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, "The sons of the bridal chamber can not be mourning, in as much as the bridegroom is with them. Yet coming will be the days whenever the bridegroom may be taken away from them, and then they will be fasting. ¹⁶ Now no one is patching a patch of unshrunk shred on an old cloak, for the patch which fills it up is lifting some from the cloak itself, and the rent is becoming worse. ¹⁷ Neither are they draining fresh wine into old wine skins; otherwise, surely the wine skins are bursting, and the wine is spilling, and the wine skins perish. But they are draining fresh wine into new wine skins, and both are preserved." ¹⁸ As He is speaking of these things to them, lo! one approaching Him, a chief, worshiped Him, saying, "My daughter just now deceases, but come and place Thy hand on her, and she shall live." ¹⁹ And, being roused, Jesus and His disciples follow him. ²⁰ And lo! a woman with a hemorrhage twelve years, approaching from behind, touches the tassel of His cloak, ²¹ for she said in herself, "If ever I should only be touching His cloak, I shall be saved." ²² Now Jesus, being turned and perceiving her, said, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you." And saved was the woman from that hour. ²³ And Jesus, coming into the house of the chief, and perceiving the flutists and the throng making a tumult, ²⁴ said, "Retire, for the maiden did not die, but is drowsing." And they ridiculed Him. ²⁵ Now when the throng was ejected, entering, He holds her hand, and the maiden was roused. ²⁶ And the fame of this came out into the whole of that land. ²⁷ And as Jesus is passing by thence, two blind men follow Him, clamoring and saying, "Be merciful to us, Son of David!" ²⁸ Now on His coming into the house, the blind men come to Him. And Jesus is saying to them, "You are believing that I am able to do this?" They are saying to Him, "Yes, Lord." ²⁹ Then He touches their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be with you." ³⁰ And opened were their eyes. And Jesus mutters to them, saying, "See! Let no one know!" ³¹ Yet they, coming out, blaze Him abroad in the whole of that land. ³² Now at their coming out, lo! they bring to Him a mute demoniac. ³³ And the demon being cast out, the mute man speaks. And the throngs marvel, saying, "Never did it appear thus in Israel!" ³⁴ Yet the Pharisees said, "By the chief of the demons is he casting out the demons." ³⁵ And Jesus led them about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and heralding the evangel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every debility. ³⁶ Now, perceiving the throngs, He has compassion on them, for they were bothered and tossed as if sheep having no shepherd. ³⁷ Then He is saying to His disciples, "The harvest, indeed, is vast, yet the workers are few. ³⁸ Beseech, then, the Lord of the harvest, so that He should be ejecting workers into His harvest."