Matthew

¹When Jesus came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. ²Behold, a leper came to him and expressed adoration to¹²³ him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean!”

³Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to! Be made clean.” Immediately, this man’s leprosy was cleansed. ⁴Jesus then said to him, “Do not tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Healing of the centurion’s slave—The centurion’s faith

⁵When Jesus came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, imploring him ⁶and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.” ⁷Jesus answered, “I will come and heal him.” ⁸But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof! Only say the word and my servant shall be healed. ⁹As it is, I am also a man under authority, having soldiers under my own authority. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and if I tell another, ‘Come,’ he comes. Or if I tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ he does it!”

¹⁰When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed, “Amen, I tell you that I have never found so great a faith, not even in Israel! ¹¹I 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. ¹²But the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹³Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” And his servant was healed in that hour.

The healing of Peter’s mother in law and other healings

¹⁴When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. ¹⁵He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.^{124 16}When evening came, many who were possessed with demons were brought to him. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick. ¹⁷Thus, what had been spoken through Isaias the prophet was fulfilled:

He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.¹²⁵

¹⁸Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

Requirements for discipleship—The calming of the storm

¹⁹A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!” ²⁰Jesus replied, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

²¹Another of his disciples said to Jesus,¹²⁶ “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” ²²But Jesus replied, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their [own] dead.”

²³When he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. ²⁴Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the waves swept over the boat, but Jesus¹²⁷ was asleep. ²⁵His disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

²⁶He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he stood up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁷The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

The healing of the demoniacs—The expulsion of the demons into pigs

²⁸When Jesus¹²⁸ arrived on the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes,¹²⁹ two men possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs. They were extremely violent, so much that nobody could pass that way. ²⁹Behold, 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?” ³⁰Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at some distance from them. ³¹The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

³²He said to them, “Go!”

The demons¹³⁰ 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. ³³Those who fed them fled and went into the city where they told everything, including what had happened to those who were possessed with demons. ³⁴Behold, the entire city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

The healing of a paralytic

123. proskuneo can also be translated “worship (in the broad sense),” “venerate,” “fall down in reverence,” “do obeisance” (see NT introduction regarding proskuneo)
124. TR reads “them” instead of “him”
125. Isaias 53:4
126. Greek “him”
127. Greek “he”
128. Greek “he”
129. CT reads “Gadarenes.” This was an enclave where the Law was not observed.
130. Greek “they”