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5:1  It happened that, · when the crowd was pressing around him and listening to the word of God, · he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret
5:2  and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
5:3  He got · into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
5:4  When · he stopped speaking, he said to · Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower · your nets for a catch.”
5:5  But Simon responded, saying, “Master, all night long we have toiled and have caught nothing! But at · your word I will lower the nets.”
5:6  And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were about to break. ·
5:7  · They signaled to their partners in the other boat · to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were about to sink.
5:8  When Simon Peter saw · this, he fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
5:9  For amazement had taken hold of him and all who were with him because of the catch of fish that they had taken,
5:10  and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. But Jesus said to · Simon, · “Do not be afraid; from · now on you will be catching men.”
5:11  Then they brought the boats to · shore, left everything, and followed him.
5:12  · It happened that, when · he was in one of the cities, · there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing · Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
5:13  And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; become clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.
5:14  Then Jesus ordered the man to tell no one: “Go, rather, and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for · your cleansing, just as Moses commanded as a testimony to them.”
5:15  Then the word about him spread even more, and large crowds would come together to hear him and to be healed of · their diseases.
5:16  But he would go off to · wilderness places and pray.
5:17  · It happened on one of those days when he was teaching, and sitting there were Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and power from the Lord was there for him · to heal,
5:18  and there were men carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. · They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.
5:19  But not finding any way to bring him in on account of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him, along with the stretcher, through the tiles into the midst, in front of · Jesus.
5:20  And when he saw · their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” ·
5:21  And the scribes and the Pharisees began to ponder, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?” ·
5:22  Jesus, perceiving · · · their thoughts, answered, saying to them, “Why are you questioning in · your hearts?
5:23  Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ · or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
5:24  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on · earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralyzed man, “I say to you, get up, and when you have picked up · your stretcher, go to · your house.”
5:25  · Immediately, having stood up before them and picked up what he had been lying on, he went off to · his house praising · God.
5:26  · Astonishment gripped them all, and they began to glorify · God. · They were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen incredible things today.”
5:27  · After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.”
5:28  So leaving everything, he got up and followed him.
5:29  And Levi made a great banquet for him in · his house, and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.
5:30  And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling · at · his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
5:31  · In response · Jesus said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who are sick do;
5:32  I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance.”
5:33  And they said to him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, so also do the disciples of the Pharisees, · but yours continue to eat and drink.”
5:34  · So Jesus said to them, “Certainly you cannot make the wedding guests · fast while the bridegroom is with them?
5:35  The days will come · · when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those · days.”
5:36  He also told · a parable to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, · he both tears the new, and the patch from the new will not match the old. ·
5:37  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, · the new wine will burst · the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
5:38  Rather, new wine is to be put into new wineskins
5:39  And no one drinking the old desires the new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’”