But the news about Yeshua kept spreading all the more, so that huge crowds would gather to listen and be healed of their sicknesses.

One day when Yeshua was teaching, there were P’rushim and Torah-teachers present who had come from various villages in the Galil and Y’hudah, also from Yerushalayim; and the power of Adonai was with him to heal the sick.

Some men came carrying a paralyzed man lying on a bed. They wanted to bring him inside and lay him in front of Yeshua,

but they couldn’t find a way to get him in because of the crowd. So they went up onto the roof and lowered him on his mattress through the tiles into the middle of the gathering, right in front of Yeshua.

When Yeshua saw their trust, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”

But Yeshua, knowing what they were thinking, answered, “Why are you turning over such thoughts in your hearts?

Later Yeshua went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting in his tax-collection booth; and he said to him, “Follow me!”

Levi gave a banquet at his house in Yeshua’s honor, and there was a large group of tax-collectors and others at the table with them.

It was Yeshua who answered them: “The ones who need a doctor aren’t the healthy but the sick.

Yeshua said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

One Shabbat, while Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields, his talmidim began plucking the heads of grain, rubbing them between their hands and eating the seeds.

Yeshua answered them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man was there who had a shriveled hand.

The Torah-teachers and P’rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something.

Then Yeshua said to them, “I ask you now: what is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or destroying it?”

But the others were filled with fury and began discussing with each other what they could do to Yeshua.

It was around that time that Yeshua went out to the hill country to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

When Yeshua had finished speaking to the people, he went back to K’far-Nachum.

Hearing about Yeshua, the officer sent some Jewish elders to him with the request that he come and heal his servant.

They came to Yeshua and pleaded earnestly with him, “He really deserves to have you do this,

So Yeshua went with them. He had not gone far from the house, when the officer sent friends who said to him, “Sir, don’t trouble yourself. I’m not worthy to have you come under my roof —

Yeshua was astonished at him when he heard this; and he turned and said to the crowd following him, “I tell you, not even in Isra’el have I found such trust!”

The next day Yeshua, accompanied by his talmidim and a large crowd, went to a town called Na‘im.

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Yeshua gave him to his mother.

When the messengers from Yochanan had gone, Yeshua began speaking to the crowds about Yochanan: “What did you go out into the desert to see? Reeds swaying in the breeze?