8:1 When ①Jesus came down from the mountain, ②large crowds followed Him.
▷ ①Lit He ②Or many
8:2 And a man with ①leprosy came to Him and ②bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
▷ ①I.e., leprosy or a serious, unspecified skin disease, and so throughout the ch; see Lev 13 ②Or worshiped Him
8:3 ①Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
▷ ①Lit And He
8:4 And Jesus *said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the ①offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
▷ ①Lit gift
8:5 And when ①Jesus entered Capernaum, a ②centurion came to Him, begging Him,
▷ ①Lit He ②I.e., a Roman military officer
8:6 and saying, “ ①Lord, my ②servant is lying paralyzed at home, terribly tormented.”
▷ ①Or Sir ②Lit boy
8:7 Jesus *said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
8:8 But the centurion replied, “ ①Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just ②say the word, and my ③servant will be healed.
▷ ①Or Sir ②Lit say with a word ③Lit boy
8:9 For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
8:10 Now when Jesus heard this, He was amazed and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith ①with anyone in Israel.
▷ ①One early ms not even in Israel
8:11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and ①recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
▷ ①I.e., to dine
8:12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
8:13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; ①it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the ②servant was healed at that very ③moment.
▷ ①Or it is to be done; Gr imperative, i.e., a command ②Lit boy ③Lit hour
8:14 When Jesus came into Peter’s ①home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.
▷ ①Or house
8:15 And He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and ①waited on Him.
▷ ①Or served
8:16 Now when evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.
8:17 This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled: “HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR ILLNESSES AND ①CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES.”
▷ ①Or removed
8:18 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.
8:19 Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
8:20 And 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 And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
8:22 But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
8:23 When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.
8:24 And behold, a ①violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.
▷ ①Lit great
8:25 And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!”
8:26 He *said to them, “Why are you ①afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and ②it became perfectly calm.
▷ ①Or cowardly ②Lit a great calm occurred
8:27 The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
8:28 And when He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men confronted Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
8:29 And they cried out, saying, “ ①What business do You have with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before ②the time?”
▷ ①Lit What to us and to you (an ancient idiom) ②I.e., the appointed time of judgment
8:30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them.
8:31 And the demons begged Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
8:32 And He said to them, “Go!” And they came out and went into the pigs; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and ①drowned in the waters.
▷ ①Lit died
8:33 And the herdsmen ran away, and went to the city and reported everything, ①including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
▷ ①Lit and the things of
8:34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they pleaded with Him to leave their region.