Mark 1:35–45

A Preaching Tour in Galilee

³⁵In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.^{* 36}And Simon and his companions hunted for him. ³⁷When they found him, they said to him, “Everyone is searching for you.” ³⁸He answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also, for that is what I came out to do.”^{* 39}And he went throughout all Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.^*

Jesus Cleanses a Man with a Skin Disease

⁴⁰A man with a skin disease came to him begging him, and kneeling^o he said to him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”^{* 41}Moved with pity,^p Jesus^q stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I am willing. Be made clean!” ⁴²Immediately the skin disease left him, and he was made clean. ⁴³After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, ⁴⁴saying to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as a testimony to them.”^{* 45}But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the word, so that Jesus^r could no longer go into a town openly but stayed out in the country, and people came to him from every quarter.^*