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8:1  When he had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.
8:2  Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached, knelt before him, and said, “Lord, if you choose to do so, you can make me clean.”
8:3  He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean.” Immediately, his leprosy was cured.
8:4  Then Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses prescribed. That will be proof for them.”
8:5  When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and pleaded for his help.
8:6  “Lord,” he said, “my servant is lying at home paralyzed and enduring agonizing sufferings.”
8:7  Jesus said to him, “I will come and cure him.”
8:8  The centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. But simply say the word and my servant will be healed.
8:9  For I myself am a man subject to authority, with soldiers who are subject to me. I say to one ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
8:10  When Jesus heard this, he was amazed, and he said to those who were following him, “Amen, I say to you, in no one throughout Israel have I found faith as great as this.
8:11  Many, I tell you, will come from the east and the west to sit with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the banquet in the kingdom of heaven.
8:12  But the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
8:13  Jesus then said to the centurion, “Return home. Your petition has been granted because of your faith.” And at that very hour the servant was healed.
8:14  Jesus then entered the house of Peter and found Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.
8:15  He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him.
8:16  That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons. He cast out the spirits with a command and cured all who were sick.
8:17  This was to fulfill the words of the prophet Isaiah: “He took away our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
8:18  When Jesus saw the great crowds around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake.
8:19  A scribe approached him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
8:20  Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
8:21  Another man, one of the disciples, said, “Lord, allow me to go first and bury my father.”
8:22  Jesus answered him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
8:23  He then got into the boat, followed by his disciples.
8:24  Suddenly, a great storm came up on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves. But he was asleep.
8:25  And so they went to him and awakened him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are going to die!”
8:26  He said to them in reply, “Why are you so frightened, O you of little faith?” Then he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
8:27  They were amazed and asked, “What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?”
8:28  When he reached the region of the Gadarenes on the other side of the lake, two men who were possessed by demons came out of the tombs and approached him. They were so fiercely violent that no one dared to pass that way.
8:29  Suddenly, they shouted, “What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?”
8:30  Some distance away a large herd of pigs was feeding.
8:31  The demons pleaded with him, “If you cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
8:32  He said to them, “Go, then!” They came out and entered the pigs. The entire herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and they perished in the water.
8:33  Those tending the pigs ran off, and when they reached the town, they related the whole story including what had happened to the men who had been possessed.
8:34  Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to leave their region.