7. So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats so full of fish that the boats were about to sink.
8. When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, “Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”
9. He and the others with him were all amazed at the large number of fish they had caught.
10. The same was true of Simon's partners, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. Jesus said to Simon, “Don't be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”
11. They pulled the boats up on the beach, left everything, and followed Jesus.
12. Once Jesus was in a town where there was a man who was suffering from a dreaded skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he threw himself down and begged him, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean!”
13. Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the disease left the man.
14. Jesus ordered him, “Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice as Moses ordered.”
15. But the news about Jesus spread all the more widely, and crowds of people came to hear him and be healed from their diseases.
16. But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.
17. One day when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the Law were sitting there who had come from every town in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was present for Jesus to heal the sick.
18. Some men came carrying a paralysed man on a bed, and they tried to take him into the house and put him in front of Jesus.
19. Because of the crowd, however, they could find no way to take him in. So they carried him up on the roof, made an opening in the tiles, and let him down on his bed into the middle of the group in front of Jesus.