To send the oppressed away free,
19To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
20And rolling up the book he gave it again to the servant, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21And he began to say to them: To-day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. 22And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said: Is not this Joseph's son? 23And he said to them: Ye will surely say to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. Whatever we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. 24And he said: Verily I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25But I tell you of a truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26and to none of them was Elijah sent, but unto Zarephath of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow. 27And there were many lepers in Israel, in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian. 28And all in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. 29And they rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, to cast him down headlong. 30But he, passing through the midst of them, went away.
31And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath; 32and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with power.
33And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, 34saying: Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Didst thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 35And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon throwing him in the midst came out from him, doing him no harm. 36And amazement came on all; and they spoke with one another, saying: What is this word, that with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out? 37And there went out a rumor concerning him into every place of the country around.
38And he rose up and went from the synagogue, and entered into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was seized with a violent fever[38]; and they besought him for her. 39And standing over her he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she arose and ministered to them.
40Now when the sun was setting, all that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on each one of them, and healed them. 41And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And he, rebuking them, suffered them not to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
42And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place. And the multitudes sought him, and came to him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. 43And he said to them: I must publish the good news of the kingdom of God to other cities also; because for this I was sent forth. 44And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
V. And it came to pass, as the multitude pressed upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2that he saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing the nets. 3And entering into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And sitting down, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.
4And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon: Put out into the deep; and do ye let down your nets for a draught. 5And Simon answering said to him: Master, we toiled all night and took nothing; but at thy word I will let down the net. 6And having done this, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their net began to break. 7And they beckoned to their partners in the other ship, to come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. 8And Simon Peter, seeing it, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying: Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. 9For astonishment had seized him, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken; 10and likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.