Luke 5:12-28

12Now while Yeshua was in one of the towns, a man covered with tza'arat appeared. And when he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face and begged Him, saying, “Master, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

13Yeshua stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be cleansed!” Immediately, the tza'arat left him.

14Yeshua ordered him to tell no one, but commanded him, “Go and show yourself to the kohen. Then bring an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

15But the news about Yeshua was spreading all the more, and many crowds were coming together to hear and to be healed of their diseases.

16Yet He would often slip away into the wilderness and pray.

17Now on one of those days, Yeshua was teaching. Pharisees and Torah scholars were sitting there, who had come from every village of the Galilee and Judea, as well as from Jerusalem. And Adonai’s power to heal was in Him.

18And behold, men were carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher, trying to bring him in and place him before Yeshua.

19But when they found no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his stretcher through the tiles, right in the middle before Yeshua.

20When He saw their faith, He said, “Man, your sins are forgiven.”

21Then the Torah scholars and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this fellow speaking blasphemies? Who can pardon sins but God alone?”

22Yeshua, knowing their thoughts, replied to them, “Why are you raising questions in your hearts?

23Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

24But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins….” He said to the paralyzed one, “I tell you, get up and take your cot, and go home!”

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

26Astonishment took hold of them, and they glorified God and all were filled with awe, saying, “We’ve seen incredible things today!”

27After these things, Yeshua went out and observed a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. He said to him, “Follow Me.”

28And leaving everything, he got up and followed Him.