Luke 5:12–26

Jesus Heals a Leper

^12aAnd 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.

^18aAnd 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.”