8 Large crowds followed Jesus after he came down from the mountain. 2 A leper approached him, bowed down before him, and said, “lord, if you are willing, you can heal me.” 3 Jesus reached out and touched him with his hand. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” Immediately his leprosy was healed. 4 “Make sure you do not tell anyone,” Jesus said to him. “Go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
   5 When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him, 6 “lord, my servant is at home, lying down, unable to walk, and in terrible agony.” 7 Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 The centurion answered, “lord, I do not deserve that you should come to my home. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under my command. I tell one ‘Go!’ and he goes, and another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my servant I say ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard what he said, he was amazed and said to those who were following him, “I am telling you the truth: I have not found such faith in Israel. 11 I assure you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down at the banquet with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 12 but the heirs of the Kingdom[106] will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” 13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go home. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” The servant was healed that very moment.
   14 When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, he saw that Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever. 15 He touched her hand and the fever left her. She got up and began making them a meal. 16 When evening came they brought to him many who were demon-oppressed, and he ordered the evil spirits to leave, and he healed all those who were sick. 17 This fulfilled what was said through the prophet Isaiah: “He removed our diseases, and took away our illnesses.”
   18 When Jesus saw the crowds around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake. 19 One of the religious teachers came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!” 20 Jesus said to him, “Foxes have their dens, and wild birds their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lie down and rest.” 21 Another disciple said to Jesus, “lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 Jesus replied, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
   23 Jesus got into a boat and his disciples followed him. 24 A great storm arose and waves crashed over the boat, but Jesus was asleep. 25 The disciples went over to him and woke him up. “Save us, lord! We are going to drown!” they said. 26 “Why are you so afraid, you people of little faith?” he asked them. Then he got up and commanded the winds and the sea, and it became completely calm. 27 The disciples were astonished and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?”
   28 When he got to the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-influenced men met him, coming out of the graveyard. They were so violent that nobody could pass by that way. 29 They shouted out, “What business have you with us, you Son of God? Have you come to torture us before the appointed time?” 30 Some way off there was a large herd of pigs feeding. 31 The demons[107] pleaded with him, “If you are going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” 32 “Go!” Jesus said. The demons left the men and went into the pigs, and the whole herd ran down the steep hillside into the sea and drowned. 33 The pig herders ran away and went to the town. There they reported everything that had taken place, and what had happened to the demonized men. 34 The whole town came out to meet Jesus and when they found him, they begged him to leave their region.