³⁵Very early the next morning, long before daylight, Jesus got up and left the house. He went out of the town to a lonely place, where he prayed. ³⁶But Simon and his companions went out searching for him, ³⁷and when they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”

³⁸But Jesus answered, “We must go on to the other villages round here. I have to preach in them also, because that is why I came.” ³⁹^*So he travelled all over Galilee, preaching in the synagogues and driving out demons.

Jesus Heals a Man

⁴⁰A man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to Jesus, knelt down, and begged him for help. “If you want to,” he said, “you can make me clean.”^c

⁴¹Jesus was filled with pity,^d and stretched out his hand and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” ⁴²At once the disease left the man, and he was clean. ⁴³Then Jesus spoke sternly to him and sent him away at once, ⁴⁴^*after saying to him, “Listen, don’t tell anyone about this. But go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then in order to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered.”

⁴⁵But the man went away and began to spread the news everywhere. Indeed, he talked so much that Jesus could not go into a town publicly. Instead, he stayed out in lonely places, and people came to him from everywhere.

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Footnotes

cmake me clean: This disease was considered to make a person ritually unclean.
dpity; some manuscripts have anger.

Cross references

*1.39: Mt 4:23; 9:35
*1.44: Lv 14:1–32