| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Simon answered and said, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, "Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy left him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And He ordered him to tell no one, "But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Seeing their faith, He said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk '? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,"-- He said to the paralytic-- "I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "Follow Me." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31And Jesus answered and said to them, "It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33And they said to Him, "The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink." |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34And Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days." |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And He was also telling them a parable: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38"But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, 'The old is good enough.'" |
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