1: Christ advertiseth the four disciples, which
he had taken unto him, of the office of the apostleship, which should
hereafter be committed unto them.
*: Matthew 4:18 Mark
1:10
a: Did as it were lie upon him, so desirous they were both to see
him, and hear him, and therefore he taught them out of a ship.
b: The word signifieth him that hath rule over anything.
*: Matthew 8:2 Mark
1:40
2: Christ by healing the leper with his only touch, and sending him
to the high priest, witnesseth that it is he, through whom and by
whom, apprehended by faith, all we which are unclean, according to
the law, by the witness of God himself, are pronounced to be pure and
clean.
*: Leviticus 14:4
3: Christ had rather to be famous by his doctrine, then by his
miracles, and therefore he departeth from them that seek him, as a
physician of the body, and not as the author of salvation.
4: Christ, in healing him that was sick of the palsy, showeth the
cause of all diseases, and the remedy.
c: The mighty power of Christ's godhead, showed itself in him at that
time.
*: Matthew 9:2 Mark
2:3
*: Matthew 9:9 Mark
2:14
5: The church is a company of sinners through the grace of Christ
repentant, which banquet with him, to the great offence of the proud
and envious worldlings.
*: 1 Timothy 1:15
*: Matthew 9:14 Mark
2:18
6: It is the point of hypocrites and ignorant men, to put an holiness
in fasting, and in things indifferent.
7: Laws generally made without any consideration of circumstances,
for fasting and other things of like sort, are not only tyrannous,
but very hurtful in the Church.
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Chapter 5
1. Christ teacheth out of the ship. 6. Of the draught of fish. 12.
The leper. 16. Christ prayeth in the desert. 18. One sick of the
palsy. 27. Levi the publican. 34. The fastings and afflictions of the
apostles after Christ's ascension. 36,37 Faith-hearted and weak
disciples are likened to old bottles and worn garments.
Then 1* it came to pass,
as the people a pressed upon him to hear the
word of God, that he stood by the lake of Gennezaret,
2 And saw two ships stand by the
lake's side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were
washing their nets.
3 And he entered into one of the
ships, which was Simon's, and required him that he would thrust off a
little from the land: and he sat down, and taught the people out of
the ship.
4 ¶ Now when he had left speaking, he
said unto Simon. Launch out into the deep, and let
down your nets to make a draught.
5 Then Simon answered, and said unto
him, b Master, we have travailed for all
night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let
down the net.
6 And when they had so done, they
enclosed a great multitude of fishes, so that their net brake.
7 And they beckoned to their parents,
which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them,
who came then, and filled both the ships, that they did sink.
8 Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fell
down at Jesus' knees, saying, Lord go from me: for I am a sinful man.
9 For he was utterly astonied, and all
that were with him, for the draught of fishes which they took.
10 And so was also James and John the
sons of Zebedee, which were companions with Simon. Then Jesus said
unto Simon, Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt
catch men.
11 And when they had brought the
ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
12 ¶*2 Now
it came to pass, as he was in a certain city, behold, there
was a man full of leprosy, and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his
face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make
me clean.
13 So he stretched forth his hand,
and touched him, saying, I will, be thou
clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
14 And he commanded him that he
should tell it to no man: but go, saith
he, and show thyself to the priest, and offer
for thy cleansing, as * Moses hath
commanded, for a witness unto them.
15 3 But so
much more went there a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came
together to hear, and to be healed of him of their infirmities.
16 But he kept himself apart in the
wilderness, and prayed.
17 ¶4 And it
came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that the
pharisees and doctors of the law sat by, which were come out of every
town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord
c was in him to heal them.
18 * Then behold, men brought a man
lying in a bed, which was taken with a palsy, and they sought means
to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
19 And when they could not find by
what way they might bring him in, because of the press, they went up
on the house, and let him down through the tiling, bed and all, in
the midst before Jesus.
20 And when he saw their faith, he
said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven
thee.
21 Then the Scribes and the Pharisees
began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? who
can forgive sins, but God only?
22 But when Jesus perceived their
reasoning, he answered and said unto them, What
reason ye in your hearts.
23 Whether is
easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Rise and walk?
24 But that ye may
know that the Son of man hath authority to forgive sins in
earth, (he said unto the sick of the palsy) I say to thee, Arise: take up thy bed and go to thine
house.
25 And immediately he rose up before
them, and took up his bed whereon he lay, and departed to
his own house, praising God.
26 And they were all amazed, and
praised God, and were filled with fear, saying, Doubtless we have
seen strange things today.
27 ¶*5 And
after that, he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at
the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow
me.
28 And he left all, rose up, and
followed him.
29 Them Levi made him a great feast
in his own house, where there was a great company of publicans, and
of other that sat at table with them.
30 But they that were Scribes and
Pharisees among them, murmured against his disciples, saying, Why eat
ye and drink ye with Publicans and sinners?
31 Then Jesus answered, and said unto
them, They that are whole, need not the physician,
but they that are sick.
32 * I came not to
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
33 ¶*6 Then
they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and
pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees also, but thine eat
and drink?
34 7 And he
said unto them, Can ye make the children of the
wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days
will come, even when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them:
then shall they fast in those days.
36 Again he spake also unto them a
parable, No man putteth a piece of a new garment
into an old vesture: for then the new rendeth it, and the piece
taken out of the new,
agreeth not with the old.
37 Also no man
poureth new wine into old vessels: for then the new wine will break
the vessels, and it will run out, and the vessels will perish:
38 But new wine
must be poured into new vessels: so both are preserved.
39 Also no man that
drinketh old wine, straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is
more profitable.
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