Luke 5

1Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.Cross-references: Num 34:11 · Deut 3:17 · Josh 12:3 · Matt 4:18 · Matt 11:12 · Matt 14:34 · +6 more

2He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.Cross-references: Matt 4:21 · Mark 1:19

3He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.Cross-references: Matt 4:18 · Matt 13:1 · Mark 4:1 · John 1:41 · John 8:2

4When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”Cross-references: Matt 17:27 · John 21:6

5Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”Cross-references: 2Ki 5:10 · Ps 127:1 · Ezek 37:4 · Ezek 37:11 · Luke 6:46 · Luke 8:24 · +6 more

6When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:3 · Eccl 11:6 · John 21:6 · Acts 2:41 · Acts 4:4 · 1Cor 15:58 · +1 more

7They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.Cross-references: Ex 23:5 · Prov 18:24 · Acts 11:25 · Rom 16:2 · Gal 6:2 · Phil 4:3

8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”Cross-references: Ex 20:19 · Judg 13:22 · 1Sam 6:20 · 2Sam 6:9 · 1Ki 17:18 · Job 40:4 · +11 more

9For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;Cross-references: Ps 8:6 · Ps 8:8 · Mark 9:6 · Luke 4:32 · Luke 4:36

10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”Cross-references: Ezek 47:9 · Matt 4:19 · Matt 4:21 · Matt 13:47 · Matt 14:27 · Matt 20:20 · +5 more

11When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.Cross-references: Matt 4:20 · Matt 10:37 · Matt 19:27 · Mark 1:18 · Mark 10:21 · Mark 10:29 · +3 more

12While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Ex 4:6 · Lev 9:24 · Lev 13:1 · Num 12:10 · Deut 24:8 · +19 more

13He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Gen 1:9 · 2Ki 5:10 · 2Ki 5:14 · Ps 33:9 · Ezek 36:25 · +6 more

14He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”Cross-references: Lev 13:2 · Lev 14:2 · Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:30 · Matt 10:18 · Matt 12:16 · +4 more

15But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.Cross-references: Prov 15:33 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:26 · Matt 15:30 · Mark 1:28 · Mark 1:45 · +5 more

16But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.Cross-references: Matt 14:23 · Mark 1:35 · Mark 6:46 · Luke 6:12 · John 6:15

17On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.Cross-references: Matt 11:5 · Matt 15:1 · Mark 3:22 · Mark 5:30 · Mark 7:1 · Mark 16:18 · +11 more

18Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.Cross-references: Matt 9:2 · Mark 2:3 · John 5:5 · Acts 9:33

19Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.Cross-references: Deut 22:8 · 2Sam 11:2 · Jer 19:13 · Matt 10:27 · Matt 24:17 · Mark 2:4

20Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Ps 90:7 · Ps 107:17 · Isa 38:17 · Matt 9:2 · Mark 2:5 · +9 more

21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Lev 24:16 · 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 32:5 · Ps 35:5 · Ps 103:3 · +15 more

22But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?Cross-references: 1Chr 28:9 · Ps 139:2 · Prov 15:26 · Isa 66:18 · Ezek 38:10 · Matt 9:4 · +6 more

23Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?Cross-references: Matt 9:5 · Mark 2:9

24But 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, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”Cross-references: Isa 53:11 · Dan 7:13 · Matt 9:6 · Matt 16:13 · Matt 25:31 · Matt 26:64 · +17 more

25Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Ps 33:9 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 103:1 · Ps 107:20 · Luke 5:13 · +4 more

26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”Cross-references: Jer 33:9 · Hos 3:5 · Matt 9:8 · Matt 12:23 · Matt 28:8 · Mark 2:12 · +6 more

27After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”Cross-references: Matt 4:19 · Matt 8:22 · Matt 9:9 · Matt 10:3 · Matt 16:24 · Mark 2:13 · +5 more

28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:19 · Matt 19:22 · Luke 5:11 · Luke 9:59

29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.Cross-references: Matt 9:10 · Mark 2:15 · Luke 15:1 · John 12:2 · 1Cor 5:9 · 1Cor 10:27

30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”Cross-references: Isa 65:5 · Matt 21:28 · Mark 7:3 · Luke 5:17 · Luke 5:21 · Luke 7:29 · +6 more

31Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.Cross-references: Jer 8:22 · Matt 9:12 · Mark 2:17

32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”Cross-references: Isa 55:6 · Isa 57:15 · Matt 18:10 · Mark 15:7 · Mark 15:10 · Luke 4:18 · +16 more

33They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”Cross-references: Prov 28:9 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 58:3 · Zech 7:6 · Matt 6:5 · Matt 9:14 · +11 more

34He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?Cross-references: Judg 14:10 · Ps 45:10 · Song 2:6 · Song 3:10 · Song 5:8 · Song 6:1 · +9 more

35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”Cross-references: Isa 22:12 · Dan 9:26 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 6:17 · Luke 17:22 · Luke 24:17 · +13 more

36He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.Cross-references: Lev 19:19 · Deut 22:11 · Matt 9:16 · Mark 2:21 · 2Cor 6:16

37No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.Cross-references: Josh 9:4 · Josh 9:13 · Ps 119:83

38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.Cross-references: Ezek 36:26 · 2Cor 5:17 · Gal 2:4 · Gal 2:12 · Gal 4:9 · Gal 5:1 · +7 more

39No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”Cross-references: Jer 6:16 · Mark 7:7 · Rom 4:11 · Heb 11:1 · Heb 11:39