Matthew 8
The Man With Leprosy
When he came down from
the mountain, great multitudes followed him. Behold, a leper came to him and
worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me
clean."
Jesus stretched out his
hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made
clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to
them."
The Faith of the Centurion
When he came into
Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, and saying, "Lord, my servant
lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."
Jesus said to him,
"I will come and heal him."
The centurion answered,
"Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the
word, and my servant will be healed. For I am also a man under
authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he
goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do
this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard it,
he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most
certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in
Israel. I tell you that
many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, but the children of the Kingdom
will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth." Jesus said to the centurion,
"Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have
believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
Jesus Heals Many
When Jesus came into
Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the
fever left her. She got up and served him. When evening came, they brought
to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word,
and healed all who were sick; that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our
infirmities, and bore our diseases."
The Cost of Following Jesus
Now when Jesus saw great
multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
A scribe came, and
said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus said to him,
"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have
nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
Another of his
disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my
father."
But Jesus said to him,
"Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own
dead."
Jesus Calms the Storm
When he got into a
boat, his disciples followed him. Behold, a violent storm came up
on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was
asleep. They came to him,
and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?"
Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
The men marveled,
saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea
obey him?"
The Healing of Two Demon-possessed Men
When he came to the
other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by
demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that
nobody could pass that way. Behold, they cried out, saying,
"What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come
here to torment us before the time?" Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them. The demons begged him, saying,
"If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."
He said to them, "Go!"
They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole
herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
Those who fed them fled,
and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened
to those who were possessed with demons. Behold, all the city came out to
meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their
borders.
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