Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁸ Jesus left the meeting house and went to Simon's house. The mother of Simon's wife was sick with a bad fever. They asked Jesus to help her.

³⁹ He went and stood beside her. He told the fever to leave her. It left. She got up right away and began to do things for them.

⁴⁰ When the sun went down, the people brought to Jesus all who were sick in any way. He put his hands on every one of them and healed them.

⁴¹ The bad spirits also came out of many people. They called out, `You are the Son of God!' But he stopped them. He would not let them talk because they knew that he was the Christ.

⁴² The next morning Jesus went away to a place by himself. The people went to look for him. When they found him, they did not want him to leave them.

⁴³ But he said to them, `I must tell the good news to the people in other towns also. It is the news of God's kingdom. I was sent to tell this.'

⁴⁴ So he told God's word in the meeting houses in the Galilee area.