Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
1
When Jesus
came down
from the
mountainside,
large
crowds
followed
him.
2 A
man with
leprosy
came and
knelt
before him
and said,
“Lord, if
you are
willing,
you can
make me
clean.”
3 Jesus
reached
out his
hand and
touched
the man.
“I am
willing,”
he said.
“Be clean!”
Immediately
he was
cleansed
of his
leprosy.
4 Then
Jesus said
to him,
“See that
you don’t
tell
anyone.
But go,
show
yourself
to the
priest and
offer the
gift Moses
commanded,
as a
testimony
to them.”
The Faith of the Centurion
5 When
Jesus had
entered
Capernaum,
a
centurion
came to
him,
asking for
help.
6 “Lord,”
he said,
“my
servant
lies at
home
paralyzed,
suffering
terribly.”
7 Jesus
said to
him,
“Shall I
come and
heal him?”
8 The
centurion
replied,
“Lord, I
do not
deserve to
have you
come under
my roof.
But just
say the
word, and
my servant
will be
healed.
9 For
I myself
am a man
under
authority,
with
soldiers
under me.
I tell
this one,
‘Go,’ and
he goes;
and that
one,
‘Come,’
and he
comes. I
say to my
servant,
‘Do this,’
and he
does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed
and said
to those
following
him,
“Truly I
tell you,
I have not
found
anyone in
Israel
with such
great
faith.
11 I
say to you
that many
will come
from the
east and
the west,
and will
take their
places at
the feast
with
Abraham,
Isaac and
Jacob in
the
kingdom of
heaven.
12 But
the
subjects
of the
kingdom
will be
thrown
outside,
into the
darkness,
where
there will
be weeping
and
gnashing
of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion,
“Go! Let it be done just as you
believed
it would.” And his servant was healed at that
moment.
Jesus Heals Many
14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he
saw
Peter’s
mother-in-law
lying in
bed with a
fever.
15 He
touched
her hand
and the
fever left
her, and
she got up
and began
to wait on
him.
16 When evening came, many who were
demon-possessed
were
brought to
him, and
he drove
out the
spirits
with a
word and
healed all
the sick.
17 This
was to
fulfill
what was
spoken
through
the
prophet
Isaiah:
“He took up our infirmities
and
bore our
diseases.”
The Cost of Following Jesus
18 When Jesus saw the crowd around him,
he gave
orders to
cross to
the other
side of
the lake.
19 Then
a teacher
of the law
came to
him and
said,
“Teacher,
I will
follow you
wherever
you go.”
20 Jesus replied,
“Foxes
have dens
and birds
have
nests, but
the Son of
Man has no
place to
lay his
head.”
21 Another disciple said to him, “Lord,
first let
me go and
bury my
father.”
22 But Jesus told him,
“Follow
me, and
let the
dead bury
their own
dead.”
Jesus Calms the Storm
23 Then he got into the boat and his
disciples
followed
him.
24 Suddenly
a furious
storm came
up on the
lake, so
that the
waves
swept over
the boat.
But Jesus
was
sleeping.
25 The
disciples
went and
woke him,
saying,
“Lord,
save us!
We’re
going to
drown!”
26 He replied,
“You of
little
faith, why
are you so
afraid?”
Then he
got up and
rebuked
the winds
and the
waves, and
it was
completely
calm.
27 The men were amazed and asked, “What
kind of
man is
this? Even
the winds
and the
waves obey
him!”
Jesus Restores Two Demon-Possessed
Men
28 When he arrived at the other side in
the region
of the
Gadarenes,
two
demon-possessed
men coming
from the
tombs met
him. They
were so
violent
that no
one could
pass that
way.
29 “What
do you
want with
us, Son of
God?” they
shouted.
“Have you
come here
to torture
us before
the
appointed
time?”
30 Some distance from them a large herd
of pigs
was
feeding.
31 The
demons
begged
Jesus, “If
you drive
us out,
send us
into the
herd of
pigs.”
32 He said to them,
“Go!” So they came out and went into the
pigs, and
the whole
herd
rushed
down the
steep bank
into the
lake and
died in
the water.
33 Those
tending
the pigs
ran off,
went into
the town
and
reported
all this,
including
what had
happened
to the
demon-possessed
men.
34 Then
the whole
town went
out to
meet
Jesus. And
when they
saw him,
they
pleaded
with him
to leave
their
region.