Thematic Bible
Luke 5:1 (show verse)
Once, when the people were pressing round Jesus as the listened to God's Message, he happened to be standing by the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats close to the shore.
Luke 5:2 (show verse)
The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.
Luke 5:3 (show verse)
So, getting into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, Jesus asked him to push off a little way from the shore, and then sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Luke 5:4 (show verse)
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon: "Push off into deep water, and throw out your nets for a haul."
Luke 5:5 (show verse)
"We have been hard at work all night, Sir," answered Simon, "and have not caught anything, but, at your bidding, I will throw out the nets."
Luke 5:6 (show verse)
They did so, and enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets began to break.
Luke 5:7 (show verse)
So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both the boats so full of fish that they were almost sinking.
Luke 5:8 (show verse)
When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus' knees, exclaiming: "Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!"
Luke 5:9 (show verse)
For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;
Luke 5:10 (show verse)
And so, too, were James and John, Zebediah's sons, who were Simon's partners. "Do not be afraid," Jesus said to Simon; "from to-day you shall catch men."
Luke 5:11 (show verse)
And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.
Luke 5:12 (show verse)
On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: "Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."
Luke 5:13 (show verse)
Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so: "I am willing; become clean." Instantly the leprosy left the man;
Luke 5:14 (show verse)
And then Jesus impressed upon him that he was not to say a word to any one, "but," he added, "set out and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing, in the manner directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure."
Luke 5:15 (show verse)
However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;
Luke 5:16 (show verse)
But Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.
Luke 5:17 (show verse)
On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was upon Jesus, so that he could work cures.)
Luke 5:18 (show verse)
And there some men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed. They tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus;
Luke 5:19 (show verse)
But, finding no way of getting him in owing to the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him through the tiles, with his pallet, into the middle of the people and in front of Jesus.
Luke 5:20 (show verse)
When he saw their faith, Jesus said: "Friend, your sins have been forgiven you."
Luke 5:21 (show verse)
The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. "Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins except God?"
Luke 5:22 (show verse)
When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed: "What are you debating with yourselves?
Luke 5:23 (show verse)
Which is the easier?--to say 'Your sins have been forgiven you'? or to say 'Get up, and walk about'?
Luke 5:24 (show verse)
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins"-- he spoke to the paralyzed man-- "To you I say, Get up, and take up your pallet, and go to your home."
Luke 5:25 (show verse)
Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.
Luke 5:26 (show verse)
The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said: "We have seen marvelous things to-day!"
Luke 5:27 (show verse)
After this, Jesus went out; and he noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting in the tax-office, and said to him: "Follow me."
Luke 5:28 (show verse)
Levi left everything and got up and followed him.
Luke 5:29 (show verse)
And Levi gave a great entertainment at his house, in honor of Jesus; and a large number of tax-gatherers and others were at table with them.
Luke 5:30 (show verse)
The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."
Luke 5:31 (show verse)
In answer Jesus said: "It is not those who are well that need a doctor, but those who are ill.
Luke 5:32 (show verse)
I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."
Luke 5:33 (show verse)
"John's disciples," they said to Jesus, "Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!"
Luke 5:34 (show verse)
But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Luke 5:35 (show verse)
But the days will come--a time when the bridegroom will be parted from them; and they will fast then, when those days come."
Luke 5:36 (show verse)
Then, as an illustration, Jesus said to them: "No man ever tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old one; for, if he does, he will not only tear the new garment, but the piece from the new one will not match the old.
Luke 5:37 (show verse)
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins; for, if he does, the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine itself will run out, and the skins be lost.
Luke 5:38 (show verse)
But new wine must be put into fresh skins.
Luke 5:39 (show verse)
No man after drinking old wine wishes for new. 'No,' he says, 'the old is excellent.'"