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# Matthew 9

Matthew 9 is chapter 9 of 28 in the Gospel of Matthew. Here are all 38 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ heals one sick of palsy: calls Matthew: cures the issue of blood: raises to life the daughter of Jairus: gives sight to two blind men: and heals a dumb man possessed by the devil.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Matthew 9 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And climbing into a boat, he crossed the sea, and he arrived at his own city.
2. And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Be strengthened in faith, son; your sins are forgiven you.”
3. And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves, “He is blaspheming.”
4. And when Jesus had perceived their thoughts, he said: “Why do you think such evil in your hearts?
5. Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’
6. But, so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he then said to the paralytic, “Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house.”
7. And he arose and went into his house.
8. Then the crowd, seeing this, was frightened, and they glorified God, who gave such power to men.
9. And when Jesus passed on from there, he saw, sitting at the tax office, a man named Matthew. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.
10. And it happened that, as he was sitting down to eat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners arrived, and they sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples.
11. And the Pharisees, seeing this, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12. But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies.
13. So then, go out and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the just, but sinners.”
14. Then the disciples of John drew near to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast frequently, but your disciples do not fast?”
15. And Jesus said to them: “How can the sons of the groom mourn, while the groom is still with them? But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them. And then they shall fast.
16. For no one would sew a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. For it pulls its fullness away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
17. Neither do they pour new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wineskins rupture, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are destroyed. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins. And so, both are preserved.”
18. As he was speaking these things to them, behold, a certain ruler approached and adored him, saying: “Lord, my daughter has recently passed away. But come and impose your hand upon her, and she will live.”
19. And Jesus, rising up, followed him, with his disciples.
20. And behold, a woman, who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years, approached from behind and touched the hem of his garment.
21. For she said within herself, “If I will touch even his garment, I shall be saved.”
22. But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said: “Be strengthened in faith, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.
23. And when Jesus had arrived in the house of the ruler, and he had seen the musicians and the tumultuous crowd,
24. he said, “Depart. For the girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they derided him.
25. And when the crowd had been sent away, he entered. And he took her by the hand. And the girl rose up.
26. And the news of this went out to that entire land.
27. And as Jesus passed from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, “Take pity on us, Son of David.”
28. And when he had arrived at the house, the blind men approached him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you trust that I am able to do this for you?” They say to him, “Certainly, Lord.”
29. Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith, so let it be done for you.”
30. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus warned them, saying, “See to it that no one knows of this.”
31. But going out, they spread the news of it to all that land.
32. Then, when they had departed, behold, they brought him a man who was mute, having a demon.
33. And after the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds wondered, saying, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel.”
34. But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of demons does he cast out demons.”
35. And Jesus traveled throughout all of the cities and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every illness and every infirmity.
36. Then, seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and were reclining, like sheep without a shepherd.
37. Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few.
38. Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest.”

## Matthew 9 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et ascendens in naviculam, transfretavit, et venit in civitatem suam.
2. Et ecce offerebant ei paralyticum jacentem in lecto. Et videns Jesus fidem illorum, dixit paralytico: Confide fili, remittuntur tibi peccata tua.
3. Et ecce quidam de scribis dixerunt intra se: Hic blasphemat.
4. Et cum vidisset Jesus cogitationes eorum, dixit: Ut quid cogitatis mala in cordibus vestris?
5. Quid est facilius dicere: Dimittuntur tibi peccata tua: an dicere: Surge, et ambula?
6. Ut autem sciatis, quia Filius hominis habet potestatem in terra dimittendi peccata, tunc ait paralytico: Surge, tolle lectum tuum, et vade in domum tuam.
7. Et surrexit, et abiit in domum suam.
8. Videntes autem turbæ timuerunt, et glorificaverunt Deum, qui dedit potestatem talem hominibus.
9. Et, cum transiret inde Jesus, vidit hominem sedentem in telonio, Matthæum nomine. Et ait illi: Sequere me. Et surgens, secutus est eum.
10. Et factum est, discumbente eo in domo, ecce multi publicani et peccatores venientes, discumbebant cum Jesu, et discipulis ejus.
11. Et videntes pharisæi, dicebant discipulis ejus: Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat magister vester?
12. At Jesus audiens, ait: Non est opus valentibus medicus, sed male habentibus.
13. Euntes autem discite quid est: Misericordiam volo, et non sacrificium. Non enim veni vocare justos, sed peccatores.
14. Tunc accesserunt ad eum discipuli Joannis, dicentes: Quare nos, et pharisæi, jejunamus frequenter: discipuli autem tui non jejunant?
15. Et ait illis Jesus: Numquid possunt filii sponsi lugere, quamdiu cum illis est sponsus? Venient autem dies cum auferetur ab eis sponsus: et tunc jejunabunt.
16. Nemo autem immittit commissuram panni rudis in vestimentum vetus: tollit enim plenitudinem ejus a vestimento, et pejor scissura fit.
17. Neque mittunt vinum novum in utres veteres: alioquin rumpuntur utres, et vinum effunditur, et utres pereunt. Sed vinum novum in utres novos mittunt: et ambo conservantur.
18. Hæc illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens: Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est: sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.
19. Et surgens Jesus, sequebatur eum, et discipuli ejus.
20. Et ecce mulier, quæ sanguinis fluxum patiebatur duodecim annis, accessit retro, et tetigit fimbriam vestimenti ejus.
21. Dicebat enim intra se: Si tetigero tantum vestimentum ejus, salva ero.
22. At Jesus conversus, et videns eam, dixit: Confide, filia, fides tua te salvam fecit. Et salva facta est mulier ex illa hora.
23. Et cum venisset Jesus in domum principis, et vidisset tibicines et turbam tumultuantem, dicebat:
24. Recedite: non est enim mortua puella, sed dormit. Et deridebant eum.
25. Et cum ejecta esset turba, intravit: et tenuit manum ejus, et surrexit puella.
26. Et exiit fama hæc in universam terram illam.
27. Et transeunte inde Jesu, secuti sunt eum duo cæci, clamantes, et dicentes: Miserere nostri, fili David.
28. Cum autem venisset domum, accesserunt ad eum cæci. Et dicit eis Jesus: Creditis quia hoc possum facere vobis? Dicunt ei: Utique, Domine.
29. Tunc tetigit oculos eorum, dicens: Secundum fidem vestram, fiat vobis.
30. Et aperti sunt oculi eorum: et comminatus est illis Jesus, dicens: Videte ne quis sciat.
31. Illi autem exeuntes, diffamaverunt eum in tota terra illa.
32. Egressis autem illis, ecce obtulerunt ei hominem mutum, dæmonium habentem.
33. Et ejecto dæmonio, locutus est mutus, et miratæ sunt turbæ, dicentes: Numquam apparuit sic in Israël.
34. Pharisæi autem dicebant: In principe dæmoniorum ejicit dæmones.
35. Et circuibat Jesus omnes civitates, et castella, docens in synagogis eorum, et prædicans Evangelium regni, et curans omnem languorem, et omnem infirmitatem.
36. Videns autem turbas, misertus est eis: quia erant vexati, et jacentes sicut oves non habentes pastorem.
37. Tunc dicit discipulis suis: Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci.
38. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2100: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 589: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2616: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1034: Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2611: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.” — St. Francis Xavier, Letter from India to his companions in Rome, 1544 (On this theme: verse 37)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 15: This, by a Hebraism, signifies the friends or companions of the bridegroom.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Dec 4, 2026: Friday of the First Week of Advent — Gospel, Matthew 9:27-31
- Sat, Dec 5, 2026: Saturday of the First Week of Advent — Gospel, Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8
- Fri, Feb 12, 2027: Friday after Ash Wednesday — Gospel, Matthew 9:14-15
- Thu, Jul 1, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 9:1-8

14 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).