Luke 5

¹ Now it occurred, as the throng is importuning Him and hearing the word of God, He also was standing beside lake Gennesaret, ² and he perceived two ships standing beside the lake. Now the fishers, stepping off from them, rinse off the nets. ³ Now, stepping into one of the ships, which was Simon's, He asks him to be backing up slightly from the land. Now, being seated, He taught the throngs out of the ship. ⁴ Now as He ceases speaking, He said to Simon, "Back up into the depth, and lower your nets for a catch." ⁵ And answering, Simon said to Him, "Doctor, the whole night through, toiling, we did not get one. Yet, at Thy declaration, I shall lower the nets." ⁶ And, this doing, they impound a vast multitude of fishes. Yet their nets tore through, ⁷ and they beckon to their partners in the other ship to come to their aid. And they came, and they fill both the ships so that they are swamped. ⁸ Now perceiving it, Simon Peter prostrates before Jesus' knees, saying, "Come away from me, for a man, a sinner am I, Lord!" ⁹ For awe engulfs him and all those with him at the catch of fishes which they took. ¹⁰ Now likewise are James also and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's mates. And Jesus said to Simon, "Fear not! From now on men you shall be catching alive!" ¹¹ And bringing the ships onto the land, leaving all, they follow Him. ¹² And it occurred, as He is in one of the cities, lo! a man full of leprosy. Now, perceiving Jesus, falling on his face, he besought Him, saying, "Lord, if Thou shouldst be willing, Thou canst cleanse me!" ¹³ And, stretching out His hand, He touches him, saying, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" And immediately the leprosy came away from him. ¹⁴ And He charges him to be speaking to no one. "But come away, show yourself to the priest, and bring for your cleansing, according as Moses bids, for a testimony to them." ¹⁵ Yet rather the account concerning Him passed through, and vast throngs came together to hear and to be cured by Him of their infirmities. ¹⁶ Now He was retreating in the wilderness and praying. ¹⁷ And it occurred on one of the days, that He was teaching, and the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every village of Galilee and of Judea and Jerusalem. And there was power of the Lord for their healing. ¹⁸ And lo! men carrying on a couch a man who was paralyzed, and they sought to be carrying him in and to place him before Him. ¹⁹ And not finding by which means they may be carrying him in because of the throng, going up on the housetop, they let him down, with the cot, through the tiles into the midst in front or Jesus. ²⁰ And, perceiving their faith, He said to him, "Man, pardoned you are your sins." ²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees begin to reason, saying, "Who is this who is speaking blasphemies? Who is able to pardon sins except God only?" ²² Now Jesus, recognizing their reasonings, answering, said to them, "What are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³ What is easier, to be saying, 'Pardoned are you your sins,' or to be saying, 'Rouse and walk'? ²⁴ Now, that you may be perceiving that the Son of Mankind has authority on earth to pardon sins (He said to the paralyzed), to you am I saying, Rouse and pick up your cot and go into your house." ²⁵ And instantly, rising before them, picking up that on which he was laid, he came away into his house, glorifying God. ²⁶ And amazement took hold of all, and they glorified God, and are filled with fear, saying that "We perceived baffling things today!" ²⁷ And after these things He came out and gazes at a tribute collector named Levi, sitting at the tribute office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." ²⁸ And, leaving all, rising, he follows Him. ²⁹ And Levi makes a great reception for Him in his house, and there was a vast throng of tribute collectors and others who were lying down with them. ³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured to His disciples, saying, "Wherefore are you eating and drinking with the tribute collectors and sinners?" ³¹ And answering, Jesus said to them, "Those who are sound have no need of a physician, but those who have an illness. ³² I have not come to call the just, but sinners, to repentance." ³³ Yet they said to Him, "The disciples of John are fasting frequently and are making petitions; likewise also those of the Pharisees; yet yours are eating and drinking. ³⁴ Now Jesus said to them, "You can not make the sons of the bridal chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them. ³⁵ Yet coming will be days whenever the bridegroom may be taken away from them also. Then they will fasting-in those days." ³⁶ Now He told them a parable also, that "No one, rending a patch from a new cloak, is patching it on an old cloak. Otherwise, surely the new also will be rending, and the patch from the new will not be agreeing with the old. ³⁷ And no one is draining fresh wine into old wine skins. Otherwise, surely the fresh wine will be bursting the wine skins, and it will be spilled and the wine skins will perish. ³⁸ But fresh wine is drained into new wine skins, and both are preserved. ³⁹ And no one, drinking the old, immediately is wanting the fresh, for he is saying, 'The old is mellower.'"