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Jesus Cleanses a Leper

40 A leper[a] came to him begging him, and kneeling[b] he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ 41 Moved with pity,[c] Jesus[d] stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ 42 Immediately the leprosy[e] left him, and he was made clean. 43 After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, 44 saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ 45 But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus[f] could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:40 The terms leper and leprosy can refer to several diseases
  2. Mark 1:40 Other ancient authorities lack kneeling
  3. Mark 1:41 Other ancient authorities read anger
  4. Mark 1:41 Gk he
  5. Mark 1:42 The terms leper and leprosy can refer to several diseases
  6. Mark 1:45 Gk he

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