OrthJBC - Luke - 5

5:1  Now it came about that while the multitude was listening to the dvar Hashem and pressing in upon Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, he had been standing beside Lake Kinneret,

5:2  and he saw two sirot (boats) having been beside the lake. But the daiyagim had left them and were cleaning the nets.

5:3  And embarking into one of the sirot (boats), which was Shimon's, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach asked Shimon to put out from the land a little; and having sat down, from the sirah (boat) Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was teaching Torah to the multitudes.

5:4  And when he stopped speaking, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, "Put out into the deep (water) and let down your nets for a catch."

5:5  And in reply, Shimon said, "Adoni, throughout the whole lailah we have labored and caught nothing, but on account of your dvar I will let down the nets."

5:6  And having done this, they enclosed asach (a lot of) dagim, and their nets were being torn.

5:7  And they signaled for their chaverim (partners) in the other sirah (boat) to come and help them. And they came and they filled both sirot (boats) so much that they began to sink.

5:8  And having seen this, Shimon Kefa fell down before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, "Depart from me, Adoni, for an ish choteh (sinful man) am I." [Bereshis 18:27; Iyov 42:6; Yeshayah 6:5]

5:9  For astonishment seized Shimon Kefa and all the ones with him on account of the catch of dagim (fish) which they took;

5:10  and likewise also Ya'akov and Yochanan the banim of Zavdai, who were business shuttafim (partners) with Shimon. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to Shimon, "Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch bnei Adam."

5:11  And having left behind the sirot (boats) on the shore, they forsook all and followed him [as talmidim]. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S REFU'AH OF THE ISH METZORAH (MT 8:2-4; MK 1:40-45)

5:12  And it came about, while he was in one of the shtetlach --hinei!--there was an ish metzorah (a leper) full of leprosy. And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, having fallen on his face, he begged him saying, "Adoni, if you are willing, you are able to make me tahor."

5:13  And having stretched out his hand, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be made tahor." And, ofen ort (immediately), the leprosy departed from him.

5:14  And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave orders to him to tell no one, but "Go and show yourself to the kohen and make a korban for your tohorah as Moshe Rabbeinu gave mitzva; do this for an edut (solemn testimony) to them." [Vayikra 14:2-32]

5:15  But the man was spreading even more the dvar about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and many multitudes were assembling to listen and to receive refu'ah from their machalot. REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH REJECTED (YESHAYAH 53:3; MT 4:13-16); REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES REFU'AH TO A PARALYTIC IN KFAR-NACHUM (MT. 9:1-8; MK 2:1-12; LK 5:17-26)

5:16  But he was withdrawing in the wilderness places and was davening.

5:17  And it came about, on one of the yamim when he was teaching Torah, that the Perushim and Sofrim who had come from every shtetl of the Galil and Yehudah and Yerushalayim, were sitting down. And the power of Hashem was with Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to bring refu'ah.

5:18  And-- hinei!--bnei Adam were carrying on a mat a man who had been paralyzed and they were seeking to carry in the paralytic and to place him before Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.

5:19  And not having found by what way they might carry him because of the multitude, and having gone up onto the roof, they let the man down with the mat through the tiles so that he was right in the center in front of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.

5:20  And having seen their emunah, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, "Ish (man), your chatta'im have received selicha."

5:21  And the Sofrim began to raise kashes (questions), and also the Perushim, saying, "Who is this who is speaking Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy)? Who is able to grant selicha to chatta'im but Hashem alone?" [Yeshayah 43:25]

5:22  But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach having had da'as of their thoughts, said to them in reply, "Why are you reasoning in your levavot?

5:23  "Which is easier: to say, `Your chatta'im have been granted selicha,' or to say, `Get up and walk?'

5:24  "But in order that you may have da'as that the Ben HaAdam has samchut (authority) on ha'Aretz to grant selicha to chatta'im," Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the one having been paralyzed, "To you I say, get up, pick up your mat, and go to your bais."

5:25  And at once the man arose in front of them, picked up the mat upon which he was lying, and departed to his bais, shouting, "Baruch Hashem!"

5:26  And astonishment seized everyone, and they were shouting "Baruch Hashem!" And they were filled with yirat Shomayim, saying, "Hayom our eyes have beheld nifla'ot!" THE KERI'AH (CALLING) OF MATTITYAHU THE MOCHES--THE SICHAS SEUDAH SHEL TALMIDE CHACHAMIM (THE TABLE TALK OF THE WISE) (MT9:9-13; MK 2:13-17)

5:27  And after these things Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach went out and saw a moches (tax collector) named Levi sitting in the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me."

5:28  And having forsook all and having got up, Levi was following Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.

5:29  And Levi arranged a large seudah in his bais for Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and there was a great number of mochesim and others who were with them, reclining at tish.

5:30  And the Perushim and their Sofrim were murmuring against Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach's talmidim, saying, "Why with the mochesim and chote'im are you eating and drinking?"

5:31  And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "It is not the bari'im (healthy ones) who have need of a rofeh (physician), but the cholim;

5:32  "I have not come to call the tzaddikim but chote'im to teshuva." REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH GIVES HIS TALMIDIM MASHALIM ABOUT TZOMOT (FASTS) (MT 9:14-17; MK 2:18-22)

5:33  But they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, "Yochanan's talmidim undergo tzomot (fasts) often and offer tefillos; likewise also the ones of the Perushim; but your talmidim eat and drink."

5:34  But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, "You are not able to make the Bnei haChuppah undergo tzomot while the Chosson is with them, are you?

5:35  "But yamim will come when the Chosson is taken away from them; then, in those yamim, they will undergo tzomot." A DERECH CHADASHA IN REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS NECESSARY FOR JUDAISM'S BRIT CHADASHA, EVEN THOUGH SOME ARE COMPLACENT AND CONTENT WITH WHAT IS NOT CHADASH (SEE ACTS CHAPTERS 15 AND 21)

5:36  Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was telling also a mashal to them: "No one tears a piece from a new garment, and sews it as a patch on old garment. Otherwise, both the new will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

5:37  "And no one puts yayin chadash into old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins and it will be spilled and the wineskins will be destroyed.

5:38  "Rather, yayin chadash must be put into new wineskins.

5:39  "And no one having drunk the old desires the chadash, for he says, `The alter (old) is beser (better).'"