Luke 5 (NET)

Luke 5:1¹Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:2²He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:3³He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:4⁴When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:5⁵Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:6⁶When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:7⁷So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:8⁸But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:9⁹For Peter and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:10¹⁰and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:11¹¹So when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:12¹²While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:13¹³So he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:14¹⁴Then he ordered the man to tell no one, but commanded him, “Go and show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:15¹⁵But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:16¹⁶Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:17¹⁷Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:18¹⁸Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:19¹⁹But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:20²⁰When Jesus saw their faith he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:21²¹Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:22²²When Jesus perceived their hostile thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you raising objections within yourselves?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:23²³Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:24²⁴But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralyzed man —“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher and go home.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:25²⁵Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:26²⁶Then astonishment seized them all, and they glorified God. They were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen incredible things today.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:27²⁷After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:28²⁸And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:29²⁹Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:30³⁰But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:31³¹Jesus answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:32³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:33³³Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:34³⁴So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:35³⁵But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, at that time they will fast.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:36³⁶He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:37³⁷And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:38³⁸Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Luke 5:39³⁹No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions