The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 5
{5:1} Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard
the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. {5:2}
He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out
of them, and were washing their nets. {5:3} He entered into one of the
boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the
land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. {5:4} When
he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep,
and let down your nets for a catch."
{5:5} Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took
nothing; but at your word I will let down the net." {5:6} When they
had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net
was breaking. {5:7} They beckoned to their partners in the other boat,
that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats,
so that they began to sink. {5:8} But Simon Peter, when he saw it,
fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful
man, Lord." {5:9} For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the
catch of fish which they had caught; {5:10} and so also were James and
John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be
catching people alive."
{5:11} When they had brought their boats to land, they left
everything, and followed him. {5:12} It happened, while he was in one
of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw
Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want
to, you can make me clean."
{5:13} He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want
to. Be made clean."
Immediately the leprosy left him. {5:14} He charged him to tell no
one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for
your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to
them." {5:15} But the report concerning him spread much more, and
great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of
their infirmities. {5:16} But he withdrew himself into the desert, and
prayed.
{5:17} It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and
there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come
out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of
the Lord was with him to heal them. {5:18} Behold, men brought a
paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before
Jesus. {5:19} Not finding a way to bring him in because of the
multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the
tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus. {5:20} Seeing their
faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
{5:21} The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who
is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
{5:22} But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are
you reasoning so in your hearts? {5:23} Which is easier to say, 'Your
sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?' {5:24} But that
you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive
sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up
your cot, and go to your house."
{5:25} Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he
was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God. {5:26}
Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled
with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
{5:27} After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named
Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
{5:28} He left everything, and rose up and followed him. {5:29} Levi
made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of
tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. {5:30} Their
scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why
do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" {5:31}
Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a
physician, but those who are sick do. {5:32} I have not come to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
{5:33} They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and
pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and
drink?"
{5:34} He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom
fast, while the bridegroom is with them? {5:35} But the days will come
when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast
in those days." {5:36} He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a
piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the
new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. {5:37} No
one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst
the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
{5:38} But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are
preserved. {5:39} No man having drunk old wine immediately desires
new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
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