Luke 5:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁶ Meanwhile, he would slip away to deserted places and pray.^(A)

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

¹⁷ One day while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem were sitting nearby, and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.^{[a](B) 18} Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Jesus,^[b]