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Luke 5:12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

Luke 5:12 NIV

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Luke 5:13 NIV

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

Luke 5:14 NIV

Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

Luke 5:15 NIV

Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

Luke 5:16 NIV

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Luke 5:17 NIV

One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.

Luke 5:18 NIV

Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus.

Luke 5:19 NIV

When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

Luke 5:20 NIV

When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”

Luke 5:21 NIV

The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Luke 5:22 NIV

Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

Luke 5:23 NIV

Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

Luke 5:24 NIV

But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”

Luke 5:25 NIV

Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God.

Luke 5:26 NIV

Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

Luke 5:27 NIV

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him

Luke 5:28 NIV

and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

Luke 5:29 NIV

Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

Luke 5:30 NIV

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 5:31 NIV

Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

Luke 5:32 NIV

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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