Matthew 8:1-14

Common English Bible

A man with a skin disease

8 Now when Jesus had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. ²A man with a skin disease came, kneeled before him, and said, “Lord, if you want, you can make me clean.”

³Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do want to. Become clean.” Instantly his skin disease was cleansed. ⁴Jesus said to him, “Don’t say anything to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded. This will be a testimony to them.”

Healing of the centurion’s servant

⁵When Jesus went to Capernaum, a centurion approached, ⁶pleading with him, “Lord, my servant is flat on his back at home, paralyzed, and his suffering is awful.”

⁷Jesus responded, “I’ll come and heal him.”

⁸But the centurion replied, “Lord, I don’t deserve to have you come under my roof. Just say the word and my servant will be healed. ⁹I’m a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and the servant does it.”

¹⁰When Jesus heard this, he was impressed and said to the people following him, “I say to you with all seriousness that even in Israel I haven’t found faith like this. ¹¹I say to you that there are many who will come from east and west and sit down to eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹²But the children of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness. People there will be weeping and grinding their teeth.” ¹³Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it will be done for you just as you have believed.” And his servant was healed that very moment.