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UST LUKE Chapter 5

5 One day while many people were crowding around Jesus and listening to him teach God’s message, he was standing next to Lake Gennesaret. 2 He saw two fishing boats there at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left the boats and were washing their fishing nets. 3 Jesus stepped into one of the two boats, the one that belonged to Simon. Jesus asked him to move the boat out a short distance away from the shore. Then Jesus sat down in the boat and continued to teach the crowds from there. 4 After he finished teaching them, he said to Simon, “Take the boat out to deeper water and let your nets down into the water to catch some fish.” 5 Simon replied, “Master, we worked hard through the whole night and yet we did not catch any fish. But I will let down the nets again because you told me to.” 6 So Simon and his crew let down their nets and they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 They motioned to their fishing partners in the other boat to come and help them. So they came and filled both boats so full with fish that the boats began to sink. 8 Seeing this, Simon Peter bowed down before Jesus and said, “Please leave me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.” 9 He said this because he marveled at the huge number of fish that they had caught. All the men who were with him also marveled. 10 James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners, were just as amazed. But Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid! Until now you gathered in fish, but from now on you will gather in people to become my disciples.” 11 So after the men brought the boats to the shore, they left their fishing business and everything else and went with Jesus.

12 Jesus went to one of the towns nearby. There was a man there who was covered with a skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down to the ground in front of him. He pleaded with him, “Lord, please heal me! I know that you are able to heal me if you are willing!” 13 Then Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. He said, “I am willing to heal you, and I heal you now!” Immediately the man was healed. He no longer had leprosy! 14 Then Jesus told him, “Do not tell anyone that I healed you. First, go and show yourself to a priest so that he can examine you and see that you no longer have leprosy. Bring the sacrifice that Moses commanded you to offer to become ceremonially clean again.” 15 But instead even more people heard about how Jesus had healed the man. As a result, large crowds came to hear Jesus teach and to have him heal them from their sicknesses. 16 But he would often go away from them to isolated areas and pray.

17 One day when Jesus was teaching, some men from the Pharisee sect and some expert teachers of the Jewish law were sitting nearby. They had come from many villages in the district of Galilee and also from Jerusalem and other cities in the province of Judea. At that same time, the Lord was giving Jesus the power to heal people. 18 While Jesus was there, several men brought him a man who was paralyzed. They were carrying the man on a sleeping pad and trying to bring him into the house to lay him down in front of Jesus. 19 But because there was such a large crowd of people in the house, they were not able to bring him in. So they went up the outside steps onto the flat roof. They removed some of the tiles from the roof to make an opening. Then they lowered the man on his sleeping pad through the opening into the middle of the crowd. He came down right in front of Jesus. 20 When Jesus perceived that they believed that he could heal the man, he said to him, “Friend, I forgive your sins!” 21 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “This man insults God by saying that! Nobody except God can forgive sins!” 22 Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said to them, “You should not question what I said within yourselves! 23 Here is something I want you to think carefully about. Which is easier to say, ‘I forgive your sins,’ or, ‘Get up and walk’? You might think that saying ‘I forgive your sins’ is easier because it does not require any visible proof. 24 But I want you to know that God has given me, the Son of Man, authority to forgive people on earth their sins. To demonstrate that, I will also tell this man to get up.” Then he said to the man who was paralyzed, “To you I say, get up, pick up your sleeping pad, and go home!” 25 Immediately the man was healed! He got up in front of them all. He picked up the sleeping pad on which he had been lying, and he went home, praising God. 26 All the people there were astonished! They praised God and were completely amazed at what they had seen Jesus do. They kept saying, “We have seen wonderful things today!”

27 Then Jesus left that place and saw a man named Levi who collected taxes for the Roman government. He was sitting in the booth where the people came to pay him the taxes that the government required. Jesus said to him, “Come with me and be my disciple!” 28 So Levi left his work and went with Jesus.

29 Later on Levi prepared a big feast in his own house for Jesus and his disciples. There was a large group of tax collectors and others eating together with them. 30 Then some men who belonged to the Pharisee sect, including some of them who taught Jewish laws, complained to Jesus’ disciples. They said, “You should not be having a banquet with tax collectors and other sinners.” 31 Then Jesus said to them, “People who are well do not need a doctor. People who are sick need a doctor. 32 Similarly, I did not come from heaven to invite those who think they are righteous to come to me. On the contrary, I came to invite those who know that they are sinners to turn from their sinful behavior and come to me.”

33 Those Jewish leaders responded to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptizer often abstain from food and pray. The disciples of the Pharisees do that too. But your disciples keep on eating and drinking! Why do they not fast like the others?” 34 Jesus answered, “No one tells the friends of the bridegroom to fast while the wedding celebration is still going on! 35 But some day the bridegroom will no longer be with his friends. Then, at that time, they will abstain from food.”

36 Then Jesus gave other examples to explain what he meant. He said, “People never tear a piece of cloth from a new garment and attach it to an old garment to mend it. If they did that, they would ruin the new garment by tearing it, and the piece of cloth from the new garment would not match the old garment. 37 And no one puts newly squeezed wine into old skin bags to store it. If anyone did that, the skin bags would tear open because they would not stretch when the new wine fermented and expanded. Then the skin bags would become useless, and the wine would also become useless because it would spill out. 38 On the contrary, new wine must be put into new skin bags.

39 Those who have only drunk old wine do not want to try new wine, because they think, ‘The old wine is good enough!’ ”

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