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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God's word, he was standing by Lake Gennesaret. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He saw two boats at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then he sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch." |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Master," Simon replied, "we've worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll let down the nets." |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When they did this, they caught a great number of fish, and their nets began to tear. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus's knees and said, "Go away from me, because I'm a sinful man, Lord!" |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For he and all those with him were amazed at the catch of fish they had taken, |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners. "Don't be afraid," Jesus told Simon. "From now on you will be catching people." |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then they brought the boats to land, left everything, and followed him. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While he was in one of the towns, a man was there who had leprosy all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged him: "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean." |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, "I am willing; be made clean," and immediately the leprosy left him. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then he ordered him to tell no one: "But go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them." |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds would come together to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17On one of those days while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord's power to heal was in him. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Just then some men came, carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before him. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Seeing their faith he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think to themselves: "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But perceiving their thoughts, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you thinking this in your hearts? |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" --he told the paralyzed man, "I tell you: Get up, take your stretcher, and go home." |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Immediately he got up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Then everyone was astounded, and they were giving glory to God. And they were filled with awe and said, "We have seen incredible things today." |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Jesus replied to them, "It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Then they said to him, "John's disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but yours eat and drink." |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus said to them, "You can't make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you? |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them--then they will fast in those days." |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He also told them a parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, not only will he tear the new, but also the piece from the new garment will not match the old. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill, and the skins will be ruined. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, 'The old is better.'" |
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