Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: MARK 6:53-56

The healing ministry of Jesus received many people. Everyone from all over brought in people of all types of illnesses. The crowd was so great that there was not place for the people to go near Jesus. Jesus touched and healed many people. He asked them to have faith in God and their faith healed.

The healing power was not only in Jesus but also in the surrounding of Jesus. People who approached him and touched his clock were also healed. The healing power was in the clothes that he was wearing. Healing power was going out of him and it was from the whole person of Jesus and the surrounding.

இயேசுவின் குணமளிக்கும் வல்லமை மக்களை அவர் பக்கம் கொண்டுவந்தது. மக்கள் கூட்டம் கூட்டமாக அவரிடம் வந்தார்கள். குணமளிக்கும் வல்லமை அவரில் மட்டுமல்ல அவருடைய சுற்றுப்புறத்திலும் இருந்தது. அவருடைய உடையிலும் இருந்தது.

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 5:1-11

Jesus was followed by a crowd. Crowd was pressing on to him. Crowd was so great that it pushed him into the sea. Jesus started his ministry in Nazareth and had reached Capernaum, the village of Simon. The followers started from Nazareth had reached Capernaum (Jesus had been working miracles all along). He never neglected his teaching ministry. He continued his teaching even after reaching the Lake. Certainly Simon listened to his teaching.

Because Simon had listened to the teaching of Jesus he could not refuse him when he told him to cast the net. Jesus waited for Simon to come back after the catch of fish (he had finished his teaching and probably he was conversing with the crowd that was thinning out). He waited until Simon and his friends returned and then he shocked them by calling them to be his disciples. Simon having listened to him and now having seen the miracle could not but say “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.”

இயேசு தான் வளர்ந்த ஊராகிய நாசரேத்திலிருந்து தனது பொதுப்பணியைத் துவங்குகிறார். போதனைகள் புதுமைகள் வழியாக மக்களோடு உறவாடுகிறார். கப்பர்நாகும் வந்து சேர்கிறார். ஒருவாரத்தில் கூட்டம் பெரிதாகிவிடுகிறது. கடல் ஓரத்தில்கூட நிற்க இடமில்லை. படகில் ஏறும் நிலை. அவ்வளவு கூட்டம். போதிக்கிறார். போதனையை கேட்ட சீமோன் கீழ்படிகிறார். புதுமையை கண்டு அஞ்சுகிறார். தன்நிலை உணர்கிறார்@ அழைப்பவர் யார் என்று உணர்கிறார்@ அதனால்தான் சீடராகிறார்.