TRANSLATION MATTHEW 9:1 Jesus stepped into a boat to cross the lake, and came to his own village. And -see this!- they brought him a paralysed man laid out on a bed. Seeing their trust, Jesus said to the paralysed man, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven!” Then, -see this!- some of the Bible scholars […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8: 28 Jesus arrived at the other side, in the territory of the Gadarenes, where two demon-possessed men coming away from the tombs, met him. Very savage they were, so much that nobody was able to travel by that road. And –see this!- they roared out, “What’s your business with us, Son of […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8:23 Going onto the boat, his pupils followed. Then there was a huge shaking of the sea, so that the boat was covered in waves, but Jesus was asleep. So they came to him and roused him, saying, “Master, rescue us, we’re going to die!” And he said to them, “Why so fearful, […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8: 18 Now Jesus, seeing large crowds surrounding him, ordered them to go off to the other side of the lake. A Bible scholar approached him, saying, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” But Jesus told him, “Foxes have lairs and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8:14 Jesus entered Peter’s house, and seeing his wife’s mother struck down with a fever, he took her hand and the fever left her; she got up and waited upon them. When it was evening, they brought to him many demon-possessed people, and he threw out the spirits with a word, and healed […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8:5 When he entered Cafernaum, a Centurión came up to him, asking his help. “Master,” he said, “ my servant is struck down at home, paralysed and in terrible pain. He said to him, “I’ll come and care for him.” But the centurion said in reply, “ I am not fit that you […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 8:1 When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him, and -see this!- a leper came to him, knelt before him and said, “Master, if you want to, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Become clean!” And immediately he was […]

TRANSLATION: MATTHEW 7: 28 But when Jesus brought his sayings to an end, the crowd was struck with amazement at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had power, and not like their scholars. Matthew is careful about these short passages of summary. Here the Greek starts with the phrase ‘It came […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 7:24 Everyone then who who hears these words of mine and does them can be likened to an intelligent man who built his house upon rock. The rain came down, the flash-floods came, the wind blew and beat against that house, and it did not fall, for its foundations were set upon rock. […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 7:21 Not all of those who say to me, “Master, master,” will come into the Rule of Heaven, only the one who does the will of my father, who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, “Master, master, in your name did we not prophesy, and in your name […]