Matthew 8
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1Large crowds followed Jesus once he'd come down from the mountain. 2A leper approached him and bowed down, worshiping him, and said, “Lord, if you're willing, please heal me.” 3Jesus reached out and touched him with his hand. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” Immediately he was healed from his leprosy.
4“Make sure you don't tell anyone,” Jesus told him. “Go and show yourself to the priest and give the offering which Moses required as public proof.”#8:4. Proof that he had been healed and was ceremonially clean. See Leviticus 14.
5When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came up to him, begging for help, 6“Lord, my servant is at home, lying down, unable to move. He's in terrible agony.”
7“I will come and heal him,” Jesus replied.
8The centurion answered, “Lord, I don't merit a visit to my home. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9For I am myself under the authority of superiors, while I also have soldiers under my command. I command one, ‘Go!’ and he goes. I command another, ‘Come!’ and he comes. I tell my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
10When Jesus heard what he said, he was astonished. He told those who were following him, “I tell you the truth, I haven't found this kind of trust anywhere in Israel. 11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12But the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into utter darkness where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”
13Then Jesus told the centurion, “Go home. Because you trusted that it would happen, what you asked for has been done.” The servant was healed right away.
14When Jesus arrived at Peter's house, he saw that Peter's mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. 15He touched her hand and the fever left her. She got up and began making him a meal.
16When evening came they brought many who were demon-possessed to Jesus. He made the spirits leave at his command, and he healed all those who were sick. 17This fulfilled what the prophet Isaiah said: “He healed our diseases, and freed us from our illnesses.”#8:17. Quoting Isaiah 53:4.
18When Jesus saw the crowds around him, he gave instructions that they#8:18. “They” meaning Jesus and the disciples. should go to the other side of the lake. 19One of the religious teachers approached him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!”
20“Foxes have their dens, and wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he can lie down and rest,”#8:20. Literally, “lay down his head.” Jesus told him.
21Another disciple said to Jesus, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
22“Follow me! Leave the dead to bury their own dead,” Jesus replied.
23Then Jesus got into a boat and his disciples went with him. 24A violent storm suddenly blew up, and waves crashed over the boat, but Jesus went on sleeping. 25The disciples went over to him and woke him up. “Save us, Lord! We're going to drown!” they shouted.
26“Why are you so afraid? Why do you trust so little?” he asked them. Then he got up, and commanded the winds and the waves to stop. Everything became absolutely calm. 27The disciples were astonished, and said, “Who is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”
28When he arrived on the other side, in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men came out of the graveyard to meet him. They were so dangerous that nobody dared to travel that way. 29They shouted out, “What have you got to do with us, you Son of God? Have you come to torture us before our time?”
30In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding. 31The demons pleaded with him, “If you're going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
32“Go!” said Jesus. The demons left the men and went into the pigs. The whole herd ran down the steep hillside into the sea and drowned. 33The pig herders ran away. They went to the town and told the people there everything that had taken place, and what had happened to the demon-possessed men. 34The whole town came out to meet Jesus. When they found him, they begged him to leave their district.
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Matthew 8
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1And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 2And behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed. 4And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
5And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. 9For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10And when Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 11And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: 12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 13And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And the servant was healed in that hour.
14And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick of a fever. 15And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered unto him. 16And when even was come, they brought unto him many possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick: 17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases.
18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19And there came a scribe, and said unto him, Teacher, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 21And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22But Jesus saith unto him, Follow me; and leave the dead to bury their own dead.
23And when he was entered into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. 25And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Save, Lord; we perish. 26And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. 27And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?
28And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could pass by that way. 29And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding. 31And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine. 32And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters. 33And they that fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were possessed with demons. 34And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their borders.
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