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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Mattithyahu (Matthew) 8
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1And when He came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him.
2And see, a leper came, and bowed before Him, saying, “Master, if You desire, You are able to make me clean.”
3And stretching out His hand יהושע touched him, saying, “I desire it. Be cleansed!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4And יהושע said to him, “See, mention it to no one. But go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Mosheh commanded, as a witness to them.”
5And when יהושע had entered Kephar Naḥum, a captain came to Him, appealing to Him,
6saying, “Master, my servant is lying in the house paralysed, grievously tortured.”
7And יהושע said to him, “I shall come and heal him.”
8And the captain answering, said, “Master, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only say a word, and my servant shall be healed.
9For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.
10And when יהושע heard, He marvelled, and said to those who followed, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Yisra’ĕl have I found such great belief!
11“And I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and sit down with Aḇraham, and Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ in the reign of the heavens,
12but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13And יהושע said to the captain, “Go, and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that hour.
14And when יהושע had come into the house of Kĕpha, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with inflammation.
15And He touched her hand, and the inflammation left her. And she arose and served them.
16And when evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17that it might be filled what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying, “He Himself took our weaknesses and bore our sicknesses.”# Isa. 53:4
18And when יהושע saw large crowds about Him, He gave a command to go off to the other side.
19And a certain scribe, having come near, said to Him, “Teacher, I shall follow You wherever You go.”
20And יהושע said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven nests, but the Son of Aḏam has nowhere to lay His head.”
21And another of His taught ones said to Him, “Master, first let me go and bury my father.”
22But יהושע said to him, “Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
23And when He entered into a boat, His taught ones followed Him.
24And see, a great gale arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping.
25And His taught ones came to Him and woke Him up, saying, “Master, save us! We are perishing!”
26And He said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little belief?” Then, having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm.
27And the men marvelled, saying, “What is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
28And when He came to the other side, to the country of the Girgashites, two demon-possessed ones met Him, coming out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass that way.
29And see, they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, יהושע, Son of Elohim? Have You come here to torture us, before the appointed time?”
30And at a distance from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding,
31and the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
32And He said to them, “Go.” And they, coming out, went into the herd of pigs. And see, the entire herd of pigs rushed down the steep place into the sea, and died in the water.
33And the herdsmen fled, and went away into the city and reported all this, and about those possessed by demons.
34And see, all the city came out to meet יהושע. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their borders.
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