Luke 5:12-26

The Leper and the Paralytic

12 ¹While 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 And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy left him.

14 And He ordered him to tell no one, "But go and ²show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

15 But ³the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

16 But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and ⁴pray.

17 One day He was teaching; and ⁵there were some Pharisees and ⁶teachers of the law sitting there, who had ⁷come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and ⁸the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.

18 ⁹And 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 But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on ¹⁰the roof and let him down ¹¹through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.

20 Seeing their faith, He said, "Friend, ¹²your sins are forgiven you."

21 The scribes and the Pharisees ¹³began to reason, saying, "¹⁴Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? ¹⁵Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

22 But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

23 "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk '?

24 "But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,"-He said to the ¹⁶paralytic - "I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home."

25 Immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home ¹⁷glorifying God.

26 They were all struck with astonishment and began ¹⁸glorifying God; and they were filled ¹⁹with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today."

Cross References

• 1. Luke 5:12-14: {Matthew 8:2-4; Mark 1:40-44}
• 2. Leviticus 13:49; Leviticus 14:2f
• 3. Matthew 9:26
• 4. Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 6:12
• 5. Matthew 15:1
• 6. Luke 2:46
• 7. Mark 1:45
• 8. Mark 5:30; Luke 6:19; Luke 8:46
• 9. Luke 5:18-26: {Matthew 9:2-8; Mark 2:3-12}
• 10. Matthew 24:17
• 11. Mark 2:4
• 12. Matthew 9:2
• 13. Luke 3:8
• 14. Luke 7:49
• 15. Isaiah 43:25
• 16. Matthew 4:24
• 17. Matthew 9:8
• 18. Matthew 9:8
• 19. Luke 1:65; Luke 7:16

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "full of"
• [b] Lit "in"
• [c] Or "deserted places"
• [d] Lit "On one of the days"
• [e] Or "stretcher"
• [f] Lit "Man"
• [g] Or "perceiving"
• [h] Lit "Astonishment took them all"