Luke 5:16-18

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¹⁶ Jesus often went away to other places to be alone so that he could pray.

Jesus Heals a Crippled Man^(A)

¹⁷ One day Jesus was teaching the people. The Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there too. They had come from every town in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The Lord was giving Jesus the power to heal people. ¹⁸ There was a man who was paralyzed, and some other men were carrying him on a mat. They tried to bring him and put him down before Jesus.