Luke 5:12-6:11

New American Standard Bible

A Man with Leprosy Healed

^12 (A)While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man ^[a]covered 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.” ¹³ And He reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy left him. ¹⁴ And He ordered him to tell no one, saying, “But go and ^(B)show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” ¹⁵ But ^(C)the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. ¹⁶ But Jesus Himself would often slip away ^[b]to the ^[c]wilderness and ^(D)pray.

A Man Lowered Through a Roof

^17 [d]One day He was teaching, and ^(E)there were some Pharisees and ^(F)teachers of the Law sitting there who had ^(G)come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and ^(H)the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing. ^18 (I)And some men were carrying a man on a stretcher who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him. ¹⁹ But when they did not find any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on ^(J)the roof and let him down ^(K)through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. ²⁰ And seeing their faith, He said, “^[e]Friend, ^(L)your sins are forgiven you.” ²¹ The scribes and the Pharisees ^(M)began thinking of the implications, saying, “^(N)Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? ^(O)Who can forgive sins, except God alone?” ²² But Jesus, ^[f]aware of their thoughts, responded and said to them, “Why are you thinking this way in your hearts? ²³ Which is easier, to say: ‘Your sins are 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 ^(P)man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher, and go home.” ²⁵ And immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home ^(Q)glorifying God. ²⁶ And ^[g]they were all struck with astonishment and began ^(R)glorifying God. They were also filled ^(S)with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today!”

Call of Levi (Matthew)

^27 (T)After that He went out and looked at a tax collector named ^[h](U)Levi sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” ²⁸ And he ^(V)left everything behind, and got up and began following Him.

²⁹ And ^(W)Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a large crowd of ^(X)tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. ^30 (Y)The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling to His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and ^[i]sinners?” ³¹ And Jesus answered and said to them, “^(Z)It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

³³ And they said to Him, “^(AA)The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do ^[j]the same, but Yours eat and drink.” ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the ^[k]attendants of the groom fast while the groom is with them, can you? ^35 (AB)But the days will come; and when the groom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶ And 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 patch from the new garment will not match the old. ³⁷ And no one pours 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 wants new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’”

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

6 ^(AC)Now it happened that ^[l]Jesus was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath, and His disciples ^(AD)were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. ² But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what ^(AE)is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ³ And Jesus, answering them, said, “Have you not even read ^(AF)what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him, ⁴ how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the ^[m]consecrated bread, which ^(AG)is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?” ⁵ And He was saying to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

^6 (AH)On another Sabbath He entered ^(AI)the synagogue and taught; and a man was there ^[n]whose right hand was withered. ⁷ Now the scribes and the Pharisees ^(AJ)were watching Him ^[o]closely to see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse Him. ⁸ But He ^(AK)knew ^[p]what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and ^[q]come forward!” And he got up and ^[r]came forward. ⁹ And Jesus said to them, “I ask you whether it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?” ¹⁰ And after ^(AL)looking around at them all, He said to him, “Stretch out your hand!” And he did so; and his hand was restored. ¹¹ But they themselves were filled with senseless rage, and began discussing together what they might do to Jesus.