13 And extending his hand he touched him, saying, “I am willing; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy went away from him.
14 And he ordered him, “Tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest and bring the offering for your cleansing just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
15 But the report about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.
16 But he himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying.
17 And it happened that on one of the days as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was there in order for him to heal.
18 And behold, men came carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and place him before him.
19 And when they did not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the roof tiles with the stretcher into the midst of them, in front of Jesus.