"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.”
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