Luke 5:4-39 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁴And when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and ^alet down your nets for a catch.” ⁵Simon answered and said, “^aMaster, ^bwe labored all night and caught nothing, but at Your word, I will let down the nets.” ⁶And when they had done this, ^athey enclosed a great quantity of fish. And their nets began to break; ⁷so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink. ⁸But when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!” ⁹For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken, ¹⁰and ¹James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon, were also likewise amazed. And Jesus said to Simon, “^aDo not fear, from now on you will be ^bcatching men.” ¹¹And when they had brought their boats to land, ^athey left everything and followed Him.

Jesus Heals a Leper

¹²^aAnd it happened that while He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man ¹covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” ¹³And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy left him. ¹⁴And He directed him to tell no one, “But go and ^ashow yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” ¹⁵But ^athe news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. ¹⁶But He Himself would often slip away ¹to the desolate regions and ^apray.

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

¹⁷And it happened that ¹one day He was teaching; and ^athere were some Pharisees and ^bteachers of the law sitting there, who had ^ccome from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and ^dthe power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing. ¹⁸^aAnd behold, some men were carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down before Him. ¹⁹But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on ^athe roof and let him down ^bthrough the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. ²⁰And seeing their faith, He said, “¹Friend, ^ayour sins are forgiven you.” ²¹The scribes and the Pharisees ^abegan to reason, saying, “^bWho is this who speaks blasphemies? ^cWho can forgive sins, but God alone?” ²²But Jesus, ¹knowing their reasonings, answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³“Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? ²⁴“But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the ^aparalytic—“I say to you, get up, and, picking up your stretcher, go home.” ²⁵And immediately he rose up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home ^aglorifying God. ²⁶And astonishment seized them all and they began ^aglorifying God; and they were filled ^bwith fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

Levi and Sinners Called

²⁷^aAnd after that He went out and noticed a tax collector named ¹^,^bLevi sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” ²⁸And he ^aleft everything behind, and rose up and began to follow Him.

²⁹And ^aLevi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of ^btax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. ³⁰^aAnd the Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and ¹sinners?” ³¹And Jesus answered and said to them, “^aIt is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. ³²“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

³³And they said to Him, “^aThe disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do likewise, but Yours eat and drink.” ³⁴And Jesus said to them, “Can you make the ¹attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵“^aBut the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new and the piece from the new will not match the old. ³⁷“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. ³⁸“But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ³⁹“And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”