1 After he had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.
2 And there came a leper who bowed down before him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to cleanse me."
3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." At once his leprosy was cleansed.
4 Then Jesus said to him, "Make sure you tell no one; instead go, show yourself to the priest, and bring the gift Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them."
5 As Jesus went into Capernaum, a centurion approached him, imploring him
6 and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying in the house paralyzed, in dreadful torment."
7 Jesus said to him, "I will come and cure him."
8 The centurion answered, "Lord, I am not fit for you to come in under my roof; just speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and another, 'Come,' and he comes, and my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
10 Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I say to you, not even in Israel have I found faith this great.
11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west and will take their places at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
12 but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the darkness outside. There will be weeping and grinding of teeth."
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; just as you have believed, so let it be for you." And his servant was healed at that very hour.
14 Jesus went into Peter's house and saw his mother-in-law laid up in bed with a fever.
15 He touched her hand, and the fever went away from her; and she got up and waited on them.
16 When evening had come, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were ill,
17 so that the word spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled: "He himself took up our weaknesses and carried away our diseases."
18 Seeing large crowds around him, Jesus gave the order to go across to the other side.
19 Then one scribe approached and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you anywhere you go."
20 Jesus told him, "The foxes have dens and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place where he may lay his head."
21 And another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go away and bury my father."
22 But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
23 He stepped into the boat, and his disciples followed him.
24 And suddenly a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered over by the waves; but he was sleeping.
25 His disciples came and roused him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are lost!"
26 He said to them, "Why are you so fearful, you of little faith?" Then he rose up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became completely calm.
27 The men were amazed and said, "What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?"
28 When he arrived on the other side, in the region of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed men coming out of the tombs met him; they were so dangerous that no one was able to go along that road.
29 And they shouted, "What business do we have with you, Jesus, Son of God? Did you come here to torment us before the appointed time?"
30 Some distance away from them a large herd of pigs was grazing.
31 So the demons pleaded with him, saying, "If you drive us out, allow us to go off into the herd of pigs."
32 He told them, "Go!" And coming out, they went off into the herd of pigs; and the whole herd of pigs stampeded down the cliff into the sea and perished in the water.
33 Those tending them ran away, went off into the town, and reported everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
34 And look, the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they urged him to move away from their territory.