Luke 5:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 but he would withdraw to deserted places to pray.(A)
The Healing of a Paralytic.(B) 17 [a]One day as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees[b] and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with him for healing. 18 And some men brought on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed; they were trying to bring him in and set [him] in his presence.
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- 5:17–6:11 From his Marcan source, Luke now introduces a series of controversies with Pharisees: controversy over Jesus’ power to forgive sins (Lk 5:17–26); controversy over his eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners (Lk 5:27–32); controversy over not fasting (Lk 5:33–36); and finally two episodes narrating controversies over observance of the sabbath (Lk 5:1–11).
- 5:17 Pharisees: see note on Mt 3:7.
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