² And behold, ^(A)a leper came to Him and ^[a](B)was bowing down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” ³ And Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his ^(C)leprosy was cleansed. ⁴ And Jesus *said to him, “^(D)See that you tell no one; but ^(E)go, ^(F)show yourself to the priest and present the ^[b]offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

The Centurion’s Faith

⁵ And ^(G)when ^[c]Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, ⁶ and saying, “^[d]Lord, my ^[e]servant is ^[f]lying ^(H)paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.” ⁷ And Jesus *said to him, “I will come and heal him.” ⁸ But the centurion said, “^[g]Lord, I am not good enough for You to come under my roof, but just ^[h]say the word, and my ^[i]servant will be healed. ⁹ For I also am a man under ^(I)authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this man, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” ¹⁰ Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith ^[j]with anyone in Israel. ¹¹ And I say to you that many ^(J)will come from east and west, and ^[k]recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; ¹² but ^(K)the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into ^(L)the outer darkness; in that place ^(M)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹³ And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; ^[l]it shall be done for you ^(N)as you have believed.” And the ^[m]servant was healed that very ^[n]moment.

Peter’s Mother-in-Law and Many Others Healed

^14 (O)When Jesus came into Peter’s ^[o]home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever. ¹⁵ And He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and began ^[p]waiting on Him. ¹⁶ Now when evening came, they brought to Him many ^(P)who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and ^(Q)healed all who were ill ¹⁷ in order to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “^(R)He Himself took our infirmities and ^[q]carried away our diseases.”

The Cost of Following Jesus

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, ^(S)He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. ^19 (T)Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” ²⁰ And Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the ^[r]air have ^[s]nests, but ^(U)the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” ²¹ And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” ²² But Jesus *said to him, “^(V)Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

^23 (W)And when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. ²⁴ And behold, there arose ^[t]a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was sleeping. ²⁵ And they came to Him and got Him up, saying, “^(X)Save us, Lord; we are perishing!” ²⁶ And He *said to them, “Why are you so cowardly, ^(Y)you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and ^[u]it became perfectly calm. ²⁷ And the men marveled, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

Jesus Saves Men from Demons

^28 (Z)And when He came to the other side, into the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were ^(AA)demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way. ²⁹ And behold, they cried out, saying, “^[v](AB)What do we have to do with You, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the ^[w]time?” ³⁰ Now there was a herd of many swine feeding at a distance from them. ³¹ And the demons began to plead with Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.” ³² And He said to them, “Go!” And coming out, they went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the waters. ³³ Now the herdsmen ran away, and went to the city and reported everything, ^[x]including what had happened to the ^(AC)demoniacs. ³⁴ And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, ^(AD)they pleaded with Him to leave their region.

¹¹ She *said to Him, “^[a]Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^(A)living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, who ^(B)gave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(C)will never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^(D)eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman *said to Him, “^[b]Sir, ^(E)give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” ¹⁶ He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” ¹⁹ The woman *said to Him, “^[c]Sir, I see that You are ^(F)a prophet. ^20 (G)Our fathers worshiped on ^(H)this mountain, and you people say that ^(I)in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^(J)an hour is coming when ^(K)neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (L)You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^(M)salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But ^(N)an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(O)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ God is ^[d]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^(P)in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^(Q)Messiah is coming (^(R)He who is called ^[e]Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus *said to her, “^(S)I who speak to you am He.”

²⁷ And at this point His ^(T)disciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(U)who told me all the things that I have done; ^(V)is this not the ^[f]Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “^(W)Rabbi, eat.” ³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the ^(X)disciples were saying to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” ³⁴ Jesus *said to them, “My food is to ^(Y)do the will of Him who sent Me and to ^(Z)finish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^(AA)for harvest. ³⁶ Even now he who reaps is receiving ^(AB)wages and is gathering ^(AC)fruit for ^(AD)life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this case the saying is true, ‘^(AE)One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹ From ^(AF)that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “^(AG)He told me all the things that I have done.” ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of His word; ⁴² and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly ^(AH)the Savior of the world.”

⁴³ And after ^(AI)the two days He went from there into Galilee. ⁴⁴ For Jesus Himself bore witness that ^(AJ)a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵ So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^(AK)having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son

⁴⁶ Then He came again to ^(AL)Cana of Galilee ^(AM)where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^(AN)Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come ^(AO)out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ^[g](AP)signs and ^(AQ)wonders, you will never believe.” ⁴⁹ The royal official *said to Him, “^[h]Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus *said to him, “^(AR)Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. ⁵¹ And while he was still going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ^[i]son was alive. ⁵² So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ^[j]seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and ^(AS)his whole household. ⁵⁴ This is again a ^(AT)second ^[k]sign that Jesus did when He had ^(AU)come out of Judea into Galilee.

⁵ And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,

⁸ And I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am ^(A)Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’