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5:12. And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man
full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him
saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

5:13. And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be
thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

5:14. And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew
thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses
commanded, for a testimony to them.

5:15. But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes
came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

5:16. And he retired into the desert; and prayed.

5:17. And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that
there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were
come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power
of the Lord was to heal them.

5:18. And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and they
sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.

5:19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in,
because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down
through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.

5:20. Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

5:21. And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this
who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

5:22. And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them:
What is it you think in your hearts?

5:23. Which is easier to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say:
Arise and walk?

5:24. But that you may know that the Son of man hath the power on earth
to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say to thee to:
Arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house.

5:25. And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on which
he lay: and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.

5:26. And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were
filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day.

5:27. And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named
Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me.

5:28. And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.

5:29. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a
great company of publicans and of o