Luke 5:4-23

⁴And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

⁵And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

⁶And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;

⁷And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.

⁸But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

⁹For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;

¹⁰And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

¹¹And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.

¹²And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.

¹³And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him.

¹⁴And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.

¹⁵But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.

¹⁶But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

¹⁷And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.

¹⁸And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.

¹⁹And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

²⁰And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

²¹And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?

²²But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

²³Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?