Matthew 8–9

¹And when he came down from the mount, great multitudes did follow him, ²and lo, a leper having come, was bowing to him, saying, ‘Sir, if thou art willing, thou art able to cleanse me;’ ³and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, ‘I will, be thou cleansed,’ and immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus saith to him, ‘See, thou mayest tell no one, but go, thyself shew to the priest, and bring the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.’

⁵And Jesus having entered into Capernaum, there came to him a centurion calling upon him, ⁶and saying, ‘Sir, my young man hath been laid in the house a paralytic, fearfully afflicted,’ ⁷and Jesus saith to him, ‘I, having come, will heal him.’ ⁸And the centurion answering said, ‘Sir, I am not worthy that thou mayest enter under my roof, but only say a word, and my servant shall be healed; ⁹for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it.’ ¹⁰And Jesus having heard, did wonder, and said to those following, ‘Verily I say to you, not even in Israel so great faith have I found; ¹¹and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens, ¹²but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness—there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.’ ¹³And Jesus said to the centurion, ‘Go, and as thou didst believe let it be to thee;’ and his young man was healed in that hour.

¹⁴And Jesus having come into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law laid, and fevered, ¹⁵and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and was ministering to them. ¹⁶And evening having come, they brought to him many demoniacs, and he did cast out the spirits with a word, and did heal all who were ill, ¹⁷that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities, and the sicknesses he did bear.’

¹⁸And Jesus having seen great multitudes about him, did command to depart to the other side; ¹⁹and a certain scribe having come, said to him, ‘Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;’ ²⁰and Jesus saith to him, ‘The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.’ ²¹And another of his disciples said to him, ‘Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;’ ²²and Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.’

²³And when he entered into the boat his disciples did follow him, ²⁴and lo, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, but he was sleeping, ²⁵and his disciples having come to him, awoke him, saying, ‘Sir, save us; we are perishing.’ ²⁶And he saith to them, ‘Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?’ Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm; ²⁷and the men wondered, saying, ‘What kind—is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?’

²⁸And he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way, ²⁹and lo, they cried out, saying, ‘What—to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?’ ³⁰And there was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding, ³¹and the demons were calling on him, saying, ‘If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;’ ³²and he saith to them, ‘Go.’ And having come forth, they went to the herd of the swine, and lo, the whole herd of the swine rushed down the steep, to the sea, and died in the waters, ³³and those feeding did flee, and, having gone to the city, they declared all, and the matter of the demoniacs. ³⁴And lo, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen him, they called on him that he might depart from their borders.

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¹And having gone to the boat, he passed over, and came to his own city, ²and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, ‘Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.’ ³And lo, certain of the scribes said within themselves, ‘This one doth speak evil.’ ⁴And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, ‘Why think ye evil in your hearts? ⁵for which is easier? to say, The sins have been forgiven to thee; or to say, Rise, and walk?

⁶‘But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins—(then saith he to the paralytic)—having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.’ ⁷And he, having risen, went to his house, ⁸and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

⁹And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, ‘Be following me,’ and he, having risen, did follow him. ¹⁰And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, ¹¹and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, ‘Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?’ ¹²And Jesus having heard, said to them, ‘They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; ¹³but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.’

¹⁴Then come to him do the disciples of John, saying, ‘Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?’ ¹⁵And Jesus said to them, ‘Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

¹⁶‘And no one doth put a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, for its filling up doth take from the garment, and a worse rent is made.

¹⁷‘Nor do they put new wine into old skins, and if not—the skins burst, and the wine doth run out, and the skins are destroyed, but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.’

¹⁸While he is speaking these things to them, lo, a ruler having come, was bowing to him, saying that ‘My daughter just now died, but, having come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.’ ¹⁹And Jesus having risen, did follow him, also his disciples, ²⁰and lo, a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, having come to him behind, did touch the fringe of his garments, ²¹for she said within herself, ‘If only I may touch his garment, I shall be saved.’ ²²And Jesus having turned about, and having seen her, said, ‘Be of good courage, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee,’ and the woman was saved from that hour. ²³And Jesus having come to the house of the ruler, and having seen the minstrels and the multitude making tumult, ²⁴he saith to them, ‘Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,’ and they were deriding him; ²⁵but, when the multitude was put forth, having gone in, he took hold of her hand, and the damsel arose, ²⁶and the fame of this went forth to all the land.

²⁷And Jesus passing on thence, two blind men followed him, calling and saying, ‘Deal kindly with us, Son of David.’ ²⁸And he having come to the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus saith to them, ‘Believe ye that I am able to do this?’ They say to him, ‘Yes, sir.’ ²⁹Then touched he their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith let it be to you,’ ³⁰and their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, ‘See, let no one know;’ ³¹but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land. ³²And as they are coming forth, lo, they brought to him a man dumb, a demoniac, ³³and the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake, and the multitude did wonder, saying that ‘It was never so seen in Israel:’ ³⁴but the Pharisees said, ‘By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.’

³⁵And Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people. ³⁶And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd, ³⁷then saith he to his disciples, ‘The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; ³⁸beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.’

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