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The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 8
{8:1} When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed
him. {8:2} Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying,
"Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
{8:3} Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want
to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. {8:4} 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."
{8:5} When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking
him, {8:6} and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed,
grievously tormented."
{8:7} Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."
{8:8} 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. {8:9}
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."
{8:10} 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. {8:11} 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, {8:12} but the children of the Kingdom
will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth." {8:13} 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.
{8:14} When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother
lying sick with a fever. {8:15} He touched her hand, and the fever
left her. She got up and served [1>]him.[<1] {8:16} 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; {8:17} that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet,
saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."[2] {8:18}
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to
depart to the other side.
{8:19} A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you
wherever you go."
{8:20} 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."
{8:21} Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first
to go and bury my father."
{8:22} But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury
their own dead."
{8:23} When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. {8:24}
Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was
covered with the waves, but he was asleep. {8:25} They came to him,
and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
{8:26} 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.
{8:27} The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that
even the wind and the sea obey him?"
{8:28} When he came to the other side, into the country of the
[3>]Gergesenes,[<3] two people possessed by demons met him there,
coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass
that way. {8:29} 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?" {8:30} Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far
away from them. {8:31} The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us
out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."
{8:32} 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. {8:33} Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city,
and told everything, including what happened to those who were
possessed with demons. {8:34} 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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Footnotes:
[1] {8:15} TR reads "them" instead of "him"
[2] {8:17} Isaiah 53:4
[3] {8:28} NU reads "Gadarenes"
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