Many people come to Gennesaret hoping for Yeshua to heal them of sickness, disease, and injuries. He sends his disciples out to see who is worthy to be healed and who is not. Simon the leper is one found worthy and Yeshua heals him first. Yeshua’s fame spreads and more crowds of people arrive to be healed. Yeshua speaks to the crowd from a boat on the waterfront about being healed, and in order for that to happen, they must forsake their evil ways and repent of their sins. Those pure in heart, he invites to enter the water and come to him and they will be made whole by their faith, but cautions those of impure heart to not enter the water because it will be their death. Many are baptized that day and healed of all manner of afflictions, but one man is not.

1 And it came to pass that during the following days, many people came to visit the community of Gennesaret to see and speak with Yeshua, and many came, hoping he would heal them of all manner of infirmaries, diseases, and injuries, as it had been spoken about in Galilee and Judea that he had done.
2 But though he wandered freely through the community and ate meals each day with the members, he met in depth only with his disciples and continued to teach them of the Celestine Light of Elohim and the things to come.
3 Some of his disciples wondered why he would not speak with the infirmed and the scholars and scribes that had come to see him, and he answered, “The mason must lay the foundation of bricks before the building can be built, and the building must be built before it can give shelter to many people.
4 But the days of the mason are numbered upon the Earth, and if he is distracted from his task, the foundation will not be laid ere he must depart.
5 Then the many that would have had shelter and comfort will be alone in the cold and dreary world because the time of the mason was robbed to help a few at the expense of the many.
6 Nor is it given to me to prepare the people of the world for the Celestine Light, for you have seen the light and hold it in your hearts. Therefore, it is given to you to bring the Celestine Light to the people and then bring those who love the light and have repented of their sins to me.
7 For only those who have repented and hold the Celestine Light in their heart are worthy of me. Only those have a resonance that turns my face to them.”
8 The disciples understood his words and that very day went among the visitors to Gennesaret and spoke to them to see who it was that came to contend, and who it was that came in selfishness to find favor of Yeshua and who it was that had come in humility seeking to be healed or to grow within themselves because they loved the light and had come seeking that which called to them.
9 Among those that they found bathed in humility and sincerity was a man known only as Simon the leper. His lot was misery, and even the disciples spoke to him with some revulsion and from a distance.
10 Nevertheless, when Yeshua met with his disciples that night, he inquired if they had found any of the visitors of pure heart. Cephas replied they had found several including a man who stank very badly, whom none could approach too near, called Simon the leper.
11 The following day, after the community meal to which uninvited visitors were not permitted to attend, Yeshua walked with Miriam and his other disciples, and they came upon Simon the leper sitting upon the ground and seeing them approach, he knelt upon his knees, saying, “O Yeshua of Nazareth, blessed be your father and mother that you stand before me. I know you are blessed above all men and that the power of God is upon you. Though I am but an unworthy clod of dirt, I beseech you to make me clean, for I know without doubt that you need only say it will be so, and so it will be.”
12 Yeshua stood before him and asked, “If you were not a leper who would you be?”
13 Simon answered him with a crack in his voice, saying, “I would be a faithful husband to my wife who has not seen me now for almost two years because of my infliction. And I would be a loving father to my children who think that I am dead. And I would be a hard-working man that I might support my family. And I would repay my brother who has supported my family in my absence twofold. And if God so wills, I would bring my family here that I might labor in your community and repay in some small measure the gift I ask of you.”
14 Yeshua put forth his hand and touched him upon his forehead, saying, “You have answered well Simon, and I perceive that your heart is pure and your words are true. Therefore, by your faith, be clean.”
15 Immediately, his leprosy began to vanish and great scabs fell off his body and onto the ground, even from within his wrappings. As they fell upon the ground, they turned immediately into dust and were no more. And all who were present marveled greatly and with wonder at what they had seen and at the new Simon who stood before them, for he was glowing in his appearance and the air around him smelled like a fresh spring day.
16 Yeshua told him, “Go and show yourself to your wife and children that they might know of a surety that the one they love has returned. Then come with your family to Gennesaret, and you will be welcomed and can be baptized. But speak not of what has happened except to the pure in heart who are open to the Celestine Light that I bring, even as you have been.”
17 Then Amram came forward, and taking the robe off his back, he handed it to Simon and said, “I will return to my home for another. You are a new man; bury the rags of your past in the ground and remember your ordeals no more, for now you are one of the Family of Light.”
18 Simon put on Amram’s robe with the joy of a child, and after bidding good-bye to Yeshua and Miriam and each disciple one by one, he hurried on the road to Jericho so that he might find again his family that had been lost.
19 When he came to his wife and revealed himself, she fainted straightaway upon seeing him. But once she revived, her joy was full, and upon hearing of the miracle of his healing by Yeshua, she went out of the house and began to joyously proclaim to everyone what she saw: “My husband, who was as dead, is now alive again! Yeshua of Nazareth has healed him in an instant! Do you hear? He was afflicted with leprosy, and now he is whole! From the moment Yeshua touched him, he was made whole! Praise to God in the highest!”
20 Now Simon, remembering the admonition of Yeshua to not speak of his healing to any but the pure in heart, tried to dissuade his wife from publicly proclaiming the miracle, but so great was her joy that she could not be persuaded.
21 Because of the proclamation of Simon’s wife, many came to see for themselves the miracle man. Before he had been afflicted, Simon had been a prosperous merchant of dates and owned a large grove down by the river with his brother; therefore, he was well known among the people of Jericho.
22 Many knew he had disappeared after being sorely afflicted with leprosy and now to see him whole and to hear the story of his miraculous healing amazed them all.
23 Word of the miracle performed by Yeshua of Nazareth soon spread across the land far beyond Jericho. It was matched with stories heard by others of additional miracles Yeshua had performed. In a very short time, his fame grew, and many more people with afflictions began to journey to Gennesaret to be healed by his touch.
24 In a matter of days, the crowds coming into the area around Gennesaret began to swell even greater in number. Yeshua asked his disciples to go each day and preach to them the principles of the true Celestine Light of Elohim and to note those with whom it resonated.
25 Then taking only Miriam with him, he departed into the wilderness to the east of the community, and they remained there for several days, communing with the Father and Mother and with each other.
26 The day following the Sabbath, Yeshua and Miriam came down from the wilderness into the town of Hippos on the east shore of the lake, and being recognized by no one there, they returned quietly by boat to Bethsaida.
27 But no sooner had they set foot upon the shore than the news quickly spread that Yeshua had returned, and people began coming toward him hurriedly from several directions, many crying out, “Heal me,” while scribes beset him with doctrinal questions without any respect.
28 Most of his disciples were out upon the lake, fishing, and it was Gimiel of Capharsalama, who seeing Yeshua, waded through the crowd to stand before him and clear a path so that he and Miriam might return to their home in Capernaum.
29 As they walked along the road to Capernaum followed by the crowd who still called out to him, they came upon a man with palsy being pulled on a litter by his wife, and as he approached, she fell to her knees and said, “Praise God in the highest; good Yeshua of Nazareth, I plead with you to heal my husband, for our children starve since he can walk no more or use one of his arms.”
30 Yeshua stopped before them, and all the crowd stopped with him in expectant silence, sensing a miracle was about to be.
31 Looking at the woman, Yeshua asked, “Are you and your husband one with Elohim in your thoughts and desires and actions?”
32 The woman answered humbly, “We have always strived to do right, but in truth, we have done much wrong, and it is our children that suffer the most because of our inequities. Many say it is because of evil my husband has done that he has been cursed to walk no more or even barely move. I know we are unworthy to ask to be healed, but our life is almost death and we knew not where else to turn.”
33 Then Yeshua asked, “If your husband were healed by the power of God, what would you do?”
34 The woman answered him, saying, “We would give thanks beyond words in our very heart and body, and my husband would go before the priests and make an offering and show himself to them that they might see God’s miracle.
35 But more than this, we would turn our backs upon our iniquities, which are greater afflictions than the palsy. We would seek you out, not to heal our bodies, but to heal our souls.”
36 Yeshua nodded in appreciation of her words and asked, “If your husband is not healed, what then will you say and do?”
37 The woman answered him again, saying, “We will surely be very sad. No one could be aught else if their hope is so lost. But it will not change our determination to live a better life than we have, to be more worthy of life itself, however limited it might be. If my husband must remain as he is, despite standing before you, then surely it is God’s will. And if it is God’s will, it must be for our good, and we will strive to appreciate and understand the good God gives to us.”
38 Then Yeshua came up to the woman and held her by each shoulder. And looking into her eyes, he said unto her, “Your honesty and humility are deeper than the pools of the Jordan.”
39 Then turning to her husband on the litter, he said unto him, “Brother, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you.”
40 There were in the crowd that witnessed this event certain scribes that had been sent to discover the evil that might be in him. And hearing Yeshua’s words, they spoke among themselves, saying, “This man commits blasphemy, for who but God can forgive sins?”
41 Yeshua, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
42 Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’
43 But that you may know that this son of man is more than that and has the power and authority on Earth to forgive sins, watch now that you may testify of the truth that condemns you.”
44 Then looking to the man upon the litter, Yeshua said unto him, “Man of misery, by your repentance, you are forgiven, and by your faith, you are made whole. I say unto you: arise, take up your bed, and walk. Go now to your house and your children.”
45 Immediately, the man stood up and then fell to his knees before Yeshua in thankfulness. Then he and his wife departed in unabashed joy for their home.
46 The scribes were aghast at what they had seen and heard, but the multitude saw it and marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to be upon the Earth.
47 At last, Yeshua and Miriam reached their home, and Martha and the children were there to greet them. Gimiel had called out to other men of the community as they traveled so that there were four who stood before the entrance to the house once Yeshua and Miriam were inside to bar the multitude from pressing too close.
48 And after a time, being assured by Gimiel that Yeshua was not coming out, the crowd dispersed. Some left altogether to return to their towns, but many others merely removed to their camps or accommodations to await Yeshua’s reappearance.
49 The following day, before the Sun arose, Yeshua and Miriam slipped out of their house unseen except for their faithful friends who had remained on guard before the door. Going down to the lake shore, they met Cephas in one of his boats along with three of Yeshua’s disciples, and boarding, they pushed out into deep water just off the shore.
50 As daylight came upon the land, one of the multitudes that waited to see Yeshua spied him on the boat, sitting off the shore, and quickly, the crowd formed upon the beach nearest to the boat as it lay at anchor, broadside to the beach.
51 Then Yeshua stood up in the center of the boat on the side, facing the beach, and spoke to them, saying, “Many of you have come to be healed of your afflictions, but like the woman whose husband had palsy yesterday, you must first be healed of the affliction of your sins in your life before you can be healed of the afflictions that beset your body.
52 Know this, I heal you not, but it is you who heal yourself; for your true affliction is not on the outside but on the inside, and you are the only physician that has the cure.
53 Some may say that their malady is on the inside, and it is something tangible and physical like a broken bone or worms that devour them, but it is not of the physical that I speak when I speak of the inside, but of the disease of your sins, which eats at the essence of your soul with more finality than worms will ever consume your body.
54 Your sins are like a millstone that weighs you down and prevents you from rising to the light. If you do not free yourself from their weight, they will crush you and drown you, making your life unfulfilled and destroying your eternity that could be.
55 I call upon you this day to forsake your evil ways and commit to walk henceforth only in the simple and true Celestine Light of Elohim, which you can learn from the mouths of my disciples.
56 I call upon you to shed your old skin and become a new and better person.
57 I call upon you to forsake your friends who have enticed you to do evil and make new friends who will entice you to do good.
58 I call upon you to publicly proclaim that you are forsaking the darkness of old and embracing the Celestine Light that dawns in the new day, in your new life, and to seal that promise with the covenant of baptism this very day by the hands and authority of my disciples.
59 Any of you who are ill and afflicted and are ready to be born again, who are ashamed of your sins and ready to live in the brightness of the Celestine Light, I invite you now to enter into the waters of Gennesaret and come to me. By my word, I declare if you are pure in your heart in your intentions, you shall be made whole.
60 But do not enter the water if you are not pure in your heart in your intentions, for the very water that gives life to the pure will be death to the impure.
61 If you are not numbered among the pure, turn your backs and leave this place; there is nothing here for you. Return to your towns and homes and come back to Gennesaret once you have healed yourself of your sins and are ready to be born again into the light.”
62 Despite his words, no one left, but many people who were afflicted of all manner of disease began to enter the water and walk toward him.
63 There was another man who also had the palsy, and his relatives held up his litter and waded out into the lake toward the boat where Yeshua stood with open arms.
64 As they neared the deep water and could walk no further, Yeshua bade them to throw the man from his litter into the lake.
65 The relatives all looked at one another uncertain of whether they should follow the words of Yeshua, but the man on the litter raised his voice and beseeched them to throw him into the lake as Yeshua had bidden.
66 Heeding his request, they threw him into the deep water beyond them, and he immediately sunk beneath the surface. But then in the next moment, he bobbed up and began to float toward the boat flailing his arms.
67 Soon, he was at the gunnel and was pulled up into the boat where he stood beside Yeshua, beaming in happiness and waving to his friends and family on the shore and standing in the lake.
68 Many other people with both minor and serious afflictions were also shouting for joy as they stood in the water, finding themselves free of their disease, both on the outside and the inside.
69 There was still another man stricken with palsy, a rich man who had been brought upon a litter by his servants, and he commanded them to bring him into the lake as they had seen the first man stricken with palsy be cured.
70 But his head man hesitated and said, “Forgive me, Master, to speak out without your command. I think only of your welfare. You have done many things God would not countenance to acquire your wealth. Have you repented as this rabbi has said must needs be, else you shall perish in the water?”
71 The rich man scoffed at him, saying, “You know people have been hurt sometimes by my actions, but that is the nature of business. I am sure God understands, for I have given many alms to the temple. Now get me into the water this instant while the power of the miracle is still there. Only good happened to the first man, and you have not seen anyone in the water suffer ill effects, so it is safe to say the rabbi’s warning was just so much pomp to create the right mood.”
72 Even as the servants entered the water, bearing the rich man on the litter, the head man still spoke with caution to him, saying, “You do not even believe the teachings of this rabbi. He has said you must repent and have faith, and he teaches many things contrary to the law which you obey. Perhaps, it would be better to wait until another day and reflect more on the things he has said.”
73 “You fool!” The rich man said, raising his voice. “It is no wonder you are a servant, and I am the master; you can’t think any better than an ass. Now throw me into the deep water as you saw the other man thrown.”
74 Abiding by his command, the servants threw him into the deep water of the lake. Like the first man with palsy, he quickly sank beneath the surface. But unlike the first man, he did not reappear, for he was weighted down by his unrepented sins and lack of true faith, and the lake became his grave.
75 Seeing this, the servants were terrified, thinking they would be blamed for their master’s death, they came back to the shore, shaking in fear.
76 But once back on shore, they were approached by a well-known doctor of the law who had come to question Yeshua. He had the scribe who attended him write a note to which he gave his seal, saying he had witnessed their master command them to throw him into the lake because he thought he would be healed by Yeshua of Nazareth.
77 He absolved the servants of guilt in their master’s death upon the promise that they would testify against Yeshua as culpable, should they be called upon before the Sanhedrin.
78 Despite the death of the rich man and the sinister actions of the doctor of law, the mood among most of the people was jubilant, with the happiest being those in the water that had been healed, with a digression in happiness obvious as the people stood further away from the shore of the lake.
79 The people standing most distant were those who felt Yeshua was speaking to them when he said that those who were not pure in their hearts and intentions should return to their homes. They did not share in the joy of those closer to the lake, but neither had they been able to pull themselves away. They were fascinated by the possibilities, but unwilling to embrace the purity Yeshua had asked of them.
80 After all the worthy who had desired to be healed had come forth, the boat came in closer to shore and the disciples went into the water and waded toward the shore until they were waist deep.
81 Then Yeshua called forth unto the multitude, saying, “All who have forsaken their wickedness and waywardness from the simple teachings of the commandments of Sinai and the Great Commandment and, in humility, seek to be born again into the greater Celestine Light of Elohim, come forth now to one of my disciples and be baptized that you may begin from this moment forth to be filled with the spirit of Elohim and ever guided on the paths of greater light and joy.”
82 The people came forth, and the disciples baptized them one by one, and forty-two people were baptized that day in Lake Gennesaret.
83 By the following day, the multitude had dispersed, and everyone had returned to their towns and homes. But during the coming weeks, another ten families moved to the Community of Light at Lake Gennesaret from among those that had been present on the day of the healings in the lake.