Jesus Calls His First Disciples
5 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, [That is, the Sea of Galilee] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3 He 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.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”
6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So 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.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and 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.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
CROSS-REFERENCE MARK 1
Jesus Calls His First Disciples
16 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him.
19 When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. 20 Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.[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.”
13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
14 Then 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.”
15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
CROSS-REFERENCE MARK 1
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.
43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17 One 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. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When 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.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 The 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?”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But 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.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone 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
27 After 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, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But 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?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who needs a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
33 They 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.”
34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
36 He 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. 37 And 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. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”
NOTES:
5:1–11 This incident has been transposed from his source, Mk
1:16–20, which places it immediately after Jesus makes his appearance in
Galilee. By this transposition, Luke uses this example of Simon’s acceptance of
Jesus to counter the earlier rejection of him by his hometown people, and since
several incidents dealing with Jesus’ power and authority have already been
narrated,
Luke creates a plausible context for the acceptance of Jesus by Simon
and his partners. Many commentators have noted the similarity between the
wondrous catch of fish reported here (Lk 4:4–9) and the post-resurrectional of the appearance of Jesus in Jn 21:1–11. There are traces in Luke’s story that the
post-resurrectional context is the original one: in Lk 4:8 Simon addresses
Jesus as Lord (a post-resurrectional title for Jesus—see Lk 24:34; Acts
2:36—that has been read back into the historical ministry of Jesus) and
recognizes himself as a sinner (an appropriate recognition for one who has
denied knowing Jesus—Lk 22:54–62).
As used by Luke, the incident looks forward
to Peter’s leadership in Luke-Acts (Lk 6:14; 9:20; 22:31–32; 24:34; Acts 1:15;
2:14–40; 10:11–18; 15:7–12) and symbolizes the future success of Peter as
fisherman (Acts 2:41).
5:11 They left everything: in Mk 1:16–20 and Mt 4:18–22 the
fishermen who follow Jesus leave their nets and their father; in Luke, they
leave everything (see also Lk 5:28; 12:33; 14:33; 18:22), an indication of
Luke’s theme of complete detachment from material possessions.
5:12 Full of leprosy: see note on Mk 1:40.
5:14 Show yourself to the priest…what Moses prescribed: this
is a reference to Lv 14:2–9 that gives detailed instructions for the
purification of one who had been a victim of leprosy and thereby excluded from
contact with others (see Lv 13:45–46, 49; Nm 5:2–3). That will be proof for
them: see note on Mt 8:4.
5:17–6:11 From his Marcan source, Luke now introduces a
series of controversies with Pharisees: the controversy over Jesus’ power to
forgive sins (Lk 5:17–26); controversy over his eating and drinking with tax
collectors and sinners (Lk 5:27–32); controversy over not fasting (Lk 5:33–36);
and finally, two episodes narrating controversies over observance of the sabbath
(Lk 5:1–11).
5:17 Pharisees: see note on Mt 3:7.
5:19 Through the tiles: Luke has adapted the story found in
Mark to his non-Palestinian audience by changing “opened up the roof” (Mk 2:4,
a reference to Palestinian straw and clay roofs) to through the tiles, a detail
that reflects the Hellenistic Greco-Roman house with a tiled roof.
5:20 As for you, your sins are forgiven: literally, “O man,
your sins are forgiven you.” The connection between the forgiveness of sins and
the cure of the paralytic reflects the belief of first-century Palestine (based
on the Old Testament: Ex 20:5; Dt 5:9) that sickness and infirmity are the
result of sin, one’s own or that of one’s ancestors (see also Lk 13:2; Jn 5:14;
9:2).
5:21 The scribes: see note on Mk 2:6.
5:24 See notes on Mt 9:6 and Mk 2:10.
5:28 Leaving everything behind: see note on Lk 5:11.
5:34–35 See notes on Mt 9:15 and Mk 2:19.
5:34 Wedding guests: literally, “sons of the bridal
chamber.”
5:36–39 See notes on Mt 9:16–17 and Mk 2:19.
5:39 The old is good: this saying is meant to be ironic and
offers an explanation for the rejection by some of the new wine that Jesus
offers: satisfaction with old forms will prevent one from sampling the new.
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