Luke 5:12-16

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Jesus Cleanses a Man with a Skin Disease

¹² Once when he was in one of the cities, a man covered with a skin disease was there. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”^{(A) 13} Then Jesus^[a] stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I am willing. Be made clean.” Immediately the skin disease left him. ¹⁴ And he ordered him to tell no one. “But go, show yourself to the priest, and, as Moses commanded, make an offering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”^{(B) 15} But now more than ever the word about Jesus^[b] spread abroad; many crowds were gathering to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.^{(C) 16} Meanwhile, he would slip away to deserted places and pray.^(D)