Matthew 8

¹ And when He came down from the mountain, many crowds followed Him. ² And behold! A leper, having approached, made obeisance* to Him, saying, “Lord, if You would want to, are** You able to cleanse me?” ³ And having extended the hand, He touched him, saying, “I want to. Be cleansed!” And immediately the leprosy of his was cleansed off. ⁴ And the Jesus says to him, “See you tell no one! Instead go, yourself, away, to show to the priest, and bring forward the gift that Moses pre-appointed, as testimony to them.”

⁵ And when he had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came up to Him, appealing to Him ⁶ and saying, “Lord! The boy of mine is stricken, paralyzed, in the house, being horribly tormented.” And He says to him, “I, having come, will heal him?”* ⁸ Yet the centurion, answering, said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You would come in under the roof of mine. Instead, speak a word only, and the boy of mine will be cured. ⁹ For I also am a human being under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to the slave of mine, ‘Do this!’ and he does.” ¹⁰ And having heard this, the Jesus marveled and said to the disciples, “Amen! I say to you, in no one in the Israel have I found such faith. And I say to you that many from East and West will come and will recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of the Heavens. Yet the sons of the Kingdom will be cast out to the darkness, the outer darkness. In that place there will be the weeping and the grinding of the teeth.” ¹³ And the Jesus said to the centurion, “Go off! As you believed, be it for you!” And the boy was cured in the hour (that one!).

¹⁴ And the Jesus, having come into the house of Peter, saw the mother-in-law of his, stricken and burning with fever. ¹⁵ And He touched the hand of hers, and the fever left her, and she arose and served Him. ¹⁶ Then, when evening had come, they presented many demon-stricken people. And He cast out the spirits by word, and He healed all them holding [up] badly, ¹⁷ which is how it would be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took the infirmities of ours, and He bore the diseases of ours.”

¹⁸ Then the Jesus, having seen many crowds around Him, ordered to come away to the other side. ¹⁹ And having come forth to a scribe, he said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You to where you would go away.” ²⁰ And the Jesus says to Him, “The foxes have dens and the birds of the heaven* encampments, yet the son of man has not where He would rest the head.” ²¹ Then another, of the disciples, said to Him, “Lord, permit me firstly to depart and make funeral rites for the father of mine.” ²² Yet the Jesus says to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead make funeral rites for their dead.”

²³ And with His embarking onto a boat, the disciples of His followed Him. ²⁴ And behold! A mega-shaking was happening on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, yet He was sleeping. ²⁵ And having come forward they roused Him, saying, “Lord! Save! We are being destroyed!” ²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly? Little-faith ones!” Then, having arisen, He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there came a mega-stillness of the sea. ²⁷ Then the people marvelled, saying, “From where is this one, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

²⁸ And Him having come to the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-stricken people, coming out from the tombs, confronted Him. They were exceedingly difficult, so that no one could manage to pass through the way, that way. ²⁹ And behold! They screamed, saying, “What concerns us and you, Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to examine us with torture?*” ³⁰ Now, there was, a big distance from them, a herd of many pigs, grazing. ³¹ Then the demons appealed to Him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us into the herd of the pigs!” ³² And He said to them, “Go off!” Then they, having gone out, went away into the pigs. And behold! All the herd rushed down the overhanging bank into the sea. And they died in the waters. ³³ Then the herdsmen fled. And having gone away into the city, they declared to everyone, even the relatives of the demon-stricken ones. ³⁴ And behold! All the city went out to confront the Jesus. And having seen Him, they appealed to Him that He would withdraw from the borders of theirs.

Notes

v. 2 For example, kneeling, kissing the hand, laying down (prostrating) before the person to whom submission is being shown.

v. 2 Or "You are able..."

v. 6 The Greek syntax can be indicative (a statement) or interrogative (a question).” The use of the explicit personal pronoun, “I”, and explicit note of where the Lord would have to go, i.e. into the house of a member of the ungodly nations, favor reading it as interrogative.

v. 20 The phrase “birds of the heaven” can refer both to “birds of the sky” and “thieving residents of Heaven”.

v. 29 The Greek verb basanízo had a connotation of investigation with painful force.