8And when^* he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. ²And behold, a leper approached and^* worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean.” ³And extending his hand he touched him, saying, “I am willing, be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

A Centurion’s Slave Healed

⁵Now when^* he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him ⁶and saying, “Lord, my slave^a is lying paralyzed in my^b house, terribly tormented!” ⁷And he said to him, “I will come and^* heal him.” ⁸And the centurion answered and^* said, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. But only say the word and my slave will be healed. ⁹For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another one, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it^c.”

¹⁰Now when^* Jesus heard this,^* he was astonished, and said to those who were following him,^* “Truly I say to you, I have found such great faith with no one in Israel. ¹¹But I say to you that many will come from east and west and be seated at the banquet^d with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹²But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!” ¹³And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go, as you have believed it will be done for you.” And the slave^e was healed at that hour.

Many at Capernaum Are Healed

¹⁴And when^* Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down and suffering with a fever. ¹⁵And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him.

¹⁶Now when it^* was evening, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed, and he expelled the spirits with a word. And he healed all those who were sick,^f ¹⁷in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said,

“He himself took away our sicknesses,

and carried away our diseases.”^g

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came down”)
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“approached”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“entered”)
aTraditionally “servant”; the Greek term here is one often used of a slave who was regarded with some degree of affection, possibly a personal servant (the parallel passage in Luke 7:7 uses the more common term for slave)
bLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
cHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation (see the parallel in Luke 7:8).
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
dLiterally “recline at table”
eMany later manuscripts have “his slave”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)
fLiterally “those who were having badly”
gA quotation from Isa 53:4