God's Chosen Servant

¹⁵ Jesus, aware of this, ^(A)withdrew from there. And ^(B)many followed him, and he healed them all

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

^7 (A)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(B)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea ⁸ and Jerusalem and ^(C)Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ^(D)Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. ⁹ And he told his disciples to ^(E)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(F)crush him, ¹⁰ for ^(G)he had healed many, so that all who had ^(H)diseases pressed around him ^(I)to touch him. ^11 (J)And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ^(K)fell down before him and cried out, “You are ^(L)the Son of God.” ¹² And ^(M)he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

² And ^(A)large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

²³ When they ^(A)persecute you in one town, ^(B)flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel ^(C)before the Son of Man comes.

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore ^(A)no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁴⁰ He went away again across the Jordan to the place ^(A)where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹ And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but ^(B)everything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴² And ^(C)many believed in him there.

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(A)the Jews^[a] were seeking to kill him.

⁵⁶ And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, ^(A)they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even ^(B)the fringe of his garment. And ^(C)as many as touched it were made well.

Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds

^23 (A)And he went throughout all Galilee, ^(B)teaching in their synagogues and ^(C)proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and ^(D)healing every disease and every affliction among the people. ²⁴ So his fame spread throughout all ^(E)Syria, and ^(F)they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and ^(G)pains, ^(H)those oppressed by demons, ^(I)those having seizures, and ^(J)paralytics, and he healed them. ^25 (K)And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the ^(L)Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.