

30 The teachers of the Law and the proud religious law-keepers talked against the followers of Jesus. Many men who gathered taxes and other people sat down with them. 29 Levi made a big supper for Jesus in his house. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.” 28 Levi got up, left everything and followed Jesus. 26 All those who were there were surprised and gave thanks to God, saying, “We have seen very special things today.” Jesus Calls Matthew ( B)Ģ7 After this Jesus went out and saw a man who gathered taxes. He took his bed and went to his home thanking God. Take your bed and go to your home.” 25 At once the sick man got up in front of them. He said to them, “Why do you think this way in your hearts? 23 Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or, ‘Get up and walk’?Ģ4 “So that you may know the Son of Man has the right and the power on earth to forgive sins,” He said to the man who could not move his body, “I say to you, get up. 20 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the man, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”Ģ1 The teachers of the Law and the proud religious law-keepers thought to themselves, “Who is this Man Who speaks as if He is God? Who can forgive sins but God only?” 22 Jesus knew what they were thinking.

Then they let the bed with the sick man on it down before Jesus. They made a hole in the roof over where Jesus stood. 19 But they could not find a way to take him in because of so many people. They looked for a way to take the man into the house where Jesus was. 18 Some men took a man who was not able to move his body to Jesus. The power of the Lord was there to heal them. They had come from every town in the countries of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. 14 But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.Jesus Heals a Man Let Down through the Roof of a House ( A)ġ7 On one of the days while Jesus was teaching, some proud religious law-keepers and teachers of the Law were sitting by Him. They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!”ġ1 But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”ġ2 “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.ġ3 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”Ĩ Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”ĩ Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath, 10 so the Jewish leaders objected. 6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”ħ “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. 3 Crowds of sick people-blind, lame, or paralyzed-lay on the porches. 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. 5 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
