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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1 And when he had descended from the mountain, great crowds followed him.
2 And behold, a leper, drawing near, adored him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to cleanse me."
3 And Jesus, extending his hand, touched him, saying: "I am willing. Be cleansed." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 And Jesus said to him: "See to it that you tell no one. But go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses instructed, as a testimony for them."
5 And when he had entered into Capernaum, a centurion approached, petitioning him,
6 and saying, "Lord, my servant lies at home paralyzed and badly tormented."
7 And Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."
8 And responding, the centurion said: "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I, too, am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
10 And, hearing this, Jesus wondered. And he said to those following him: "Amen I say to you, I have not found so great a faith in Israel.
11 For I say to you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and they shall sit at table with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
13 And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go, and just as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And the servant was healed at that very hour.
14 And when Jesus had arrived at the house of Peter, he saw his mother-in-law lying ill with a fever.
15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose up and ministered to them.
16 And when evening arrived, they brought to him many who had demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word. And he healed all those having maladies,
17 in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying, "He took our infirmities, and he carried away our diseases."
18 Then Jesus, seeing the great crowds encircling him, gave orders to go across the sea.
19 And one scribe, approaching, said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you will go."
20 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to rest his head."
21 Then another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."
22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and allow the dead to bury their dead."
23 And climbing into a boat, his disciples followed him.
24 And behold, a great tempest occurred in the sea, so much so that the boat was covered with waves; yet truly, he was sleeping.
25 And his disciples drew near to him, and they awakened him, saying: "Lord, save us, we are perishing."
26 And Jesus said to them, "Why are you afraid, O little in faith?" Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea. And a great tranquility occurred.
27 Moreover, the men wondered, saying: "What kind of man is this? For even the winds and the sea obey him."
28 And when he had arrived across the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes, he was met by two who had demons, who were so exceedingly savage, as they went out from among the tombs, that no one was able to cross by that way.
29 And behold, they cried out, saying: "What are we to you, O Jesus, the Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
30 Now there was, not far from them, a herd of many swine feeding.
31 Then the demons petitioned him, saying: "If you cast us from here, send us into the herd of swine."
32 And he said to them, "Go." And they, going out, went into the swine. And behold, the entire herd suddenly rushed along a steep place into the sea. And they died in the waters.
33 Then the shepherds fled, and arriving in the city, they reported on all this, and on those who had had the demons.
34 And behold, the entire city went out to meet Jesus. And having seen him, they petitioned him, so that he would cross from their borders.
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