The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Matthew 08
1 When he came down from the mountain,
great multitudes followed him.
2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped
him, saying, “Lord, if you want to,
you can make me clean.”
3 Jesus stretched out his hand and
touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made
clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 Jesus said to him, “See that you tell
nobody; but go, show yourselfto the priest,
and offer the gift that Moses commanded,
as a testimony to them.”
5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion
came to him, asking him for help,
6 saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the
house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
7 Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered, “Lord,I’m not
worthy for you to come under my roof.
Just say the word, and my servant will be
healed.
9 For I am also a man under authority,
having under myself soldiers. I tell this
one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another,
‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant,
‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled and
said to those who followed, “Most certainly
I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith,
not even in Israel.
11 Itell you that many will come from the
east and the west, and will sit down with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom
of Heaven,
12 but the children of the Kingdom will
be thrown out into the outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.”
13 Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your
way. Let it be done for you as you have
believed.” His servant was healed in that
hour.
14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house,
he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a
fever.
15 He touched her hand, and the fever
left her. So she got up and served him.†
16 When evening came, they brought to
him many possessed with demons. He cast
out the spirits with a word, and healed all
who were sick,
17 that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”*
18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes
around him, he gave the order to depart to
the other side.
19 A scribe came and said to him,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have
holes and the birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his
head.”
21 Another of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my
father.”
22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and
leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
23 When he got into a boat, his disciples
followed him.
24 Behold, a violent storm came up on
the sea, so much that the boat was covered
with the waves; but he was asleep.
25 The disciples came to him and woke
him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are
dying!”
26 He said to them, “Why are you fearful,
O you of little faith?” Then he got up,
rebuked the wind and the sea, and there
was a great calm.
27 The men marveled, saying, “What
kind of man is this, that even the wind and
the sea obey him?”
28 When he came to the other side, into
the country of the Gergesenes,‡ two people
possessed by demons met him there, coming
out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so
that nobody could pass that way.
29 Behold, they cried out, saying, “What
do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of
God? Have you come here to torment us
before the time?”
30 Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them.
31 The demons begged him, saying, “If
you cast us out, permit us to go away into
the herd of pigs.”
32 He said to them, “Go!”
They came out and went into the herd
of pigs; and behold, the whole herd of pigs
rushed down the cliff into the sea and died
in the water.
33 Those who fed them fled and went
away into the city and told everything,
including what happened to those who were
possessed with demons.
34 Behold, all the city came out to meet
Jesus. When they saw him, they begged
that he would depart from their borders.