Matthew 9 (WEB)
I was with my friend Yuval Lufan at Nof Ginosaur for him to explain to my tour group about how he and his brother Moshe found in the Sea of Galilee, the only ancient fishing boat dating to the time of Jesus and His disciples.
I'm Dr. Wayne House.
I'm here at Nof Ginosar on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
And I have with me today Yuval Lufan, a brother who found the ancient boat, sometimes called the Jesus boat.
And we're privileged to have him speak with us today to tell the story about how he came across this miracle one day on the shores of Galilee.
Good to have you.
I born here in the Kibbutz Ginosar, near from the lake.
My father is a fisherman.
We are second generation from fishermen.
All the time we are a child, we are playing the water.
Sea of Galilee for me is everything.
I learned catch fishing in the Sea of Galilee, but all the time I'm a child, I'm dreaming.
Maybe one day I find treasure in the lake.
So I grew up, my hobby archaeology, I take my little brother Moishele with me, and we are looking all the area, and we are not stop dreaming.
And one day they stop raining, and the level going and going, and we are feeling this is a chance now we find what we are dreaming.
And we start looking, and one day with a clean beach near Magdala, we find coins in the sand, and we are thinking, if coins in there, maybe it's very old coins, Jewish coins, Roman coins.
We are feeling, if a coin in there, maybe another thing.
So with this area we are looking, and one day we are seeing nail, and after 20 centimeters another one, and another one.
We have cleaned the place and we have seen the wood and said, wow, we are fine boat, we are jumping, we are dancing, we are crazy about it, because we are feeling we are fine what we are dreaming.
Two weeks, we are not talking from nobody, because we find treasure belongs to us.
But after, we are called the archeologic in an archeologic camp.
And the moment we are archeologically clean the wood and looking and said, oh, she's very old.
She's a building like old time.
With this moment, the weather change.
It's very strong rain starting, to stop quickly, and sun goes out, it's a big rainbow, go outside, she's so strong, she's double rainbow.
And we are feeling, this boat, she belongs from somebody, give it to us a chance to look at the attachment.
The sign like this is amazing.
And after many miracles, she is here now in the Museum, Museum Beit-Yigal Allon in Ginosar.
Moishele and I, my brother, we are feeling she changed all the area from something good, a special spirit with this boat.
You see the boat in the lake — before the boat is the metal, now the boat is the wood, because all the tourists want boat like Jesus' boat.
And sometimes the boat coming and you're feeling you go 2,000 years back, because it looked like old times, more romantic in the lake, and she is fantastic.
Welcome to the boat.
1He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. 2Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
3Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’? 6But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”
7He arose and departed to his house. 8But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him. 10As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
14Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
15Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. 17Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
18While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
19Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. 20Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; 21for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
22But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.
23When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, 24he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
They were ridiculing him. 25But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 26The report of this went out into all that land.
27As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!” 28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
29Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.” 30Then their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.” 31But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.
32As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. 33When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
34But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”
35Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. 36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”