Luke 5
5
Jesus calls disciples
1One day Jesus was standing beside Lake Gennesaret when the crowd pressed in around him to hear God’s word. 2Jesus saw two boats sitting by the lake. The fishermen had gone ashore and were washing their nets. 3Jesus boarded one of the boats, the one that belonged to Simon, then asked him to row out a little distance from the shore. Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. 4When he finished speaking to the crowds, he said to Simon, “Row out farther, into the deep water, and drop your nets for a catch.”
5Simon replied, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and caught nothing. But because you say so, I’ll drop the nets.”
6So they dropped the nets and their catch was so huge that their nets were splitting. 7They signaled for their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They filled both boats so full that they were about to sink. 8When Simon Peter saw the catch, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Leave me, Lord, for I’m a sinner!” 9Peter and those with him were overcome with amazement because of the number of fish they caught. 10James and John, Zebedee’s sons, were Simon’s partners and they were amazed too.
Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on, you will be fishing for people.” 11As soon as they brought the boats to the shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.
A man with a skin disease
12Jesus was in one of the towns where there was also a man covered with a skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged, “Lord, if you want, you can make me clean.”
13Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do want to. Be clean.” Instantly, the skin disease left him. 14Jesus ordered him not to tell anyone. “Instead,” Jesus said, “go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses instructed. This will be a testimony to them.” 15News of him spread even more and huge crowds gathered to listen and to be healed from their illnesses. 16But Jesus would withdraw to deserted places for prayer.
Jesus heals a paralyzed man
17One day when Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and legal experts were sitting nearby. They had come from every village in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal. 18Some men were bringing a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot. They wanted to carry him in and place him before Jesus, 19but they couldn’t reach him because of the crowd. So they took him up on the roof and lowered him—cot and all—through the roof tiles into the crowded room in front of Jesus. 20When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21The legal experts and Pharisees began to mutter among themselves, “Who is this who insults God? Only God can forgive sins!”
22Jesus recognized what they were discussing and responded, “Why do you fill your minds with these questions? 23Which is easier—to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24But so that you will know that the Human One#5.24 Or Son of Manhas authority on the earth to forgive sins”—Jesus now spoke to the man who was paralyzed,“I say to you, get up, take your cot, and go home.” 25Right away, the man stood before them, picked up his cot, and went home, praising God.
26All the people were beside themselves with wonder. Filled with awe, they glorified God, saying, “We’ve seen unimaginable things today.”
Jesus calls a tax collector
27Afterward, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at a kiosk for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
28Levi got up, left everything behind, and followed him. 29Then Levi threw a great banquet for Jesus in his home. A large number of tax collectors and others sat down to eat with them. 30The Pharisees and their legal experts grumbled against his disciples. They said, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31Jesus answered, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. 32I didn’t come to call righteous people but sinners to change their hearts and lives.”
The old and the new
33Some people said to Jesus, “The disciples of John fast often and pray frequently. The disciples of the Pharisees do the same, but your disciples are always eating and drinking.”
34Jesus replied, “You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you? 35The days will come when the groom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.”
36Then he told them a parable. “No one tears a patch from a new garment to patch an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t match the old garment. 37Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would burst the wineskins, the wine would spill, and the wineskins would be ruined. 38Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins. 39No one who drinks a well-aged wine wants new wine, but says, ‘The well-aged wine is better.’”
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