² A man with leprosy^[a](A) came and knelt before him^(B) and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

³ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. ⁴ Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone.^(C) But go, show yourself to the priest^(D) and offer the gift Moses commanded,^(E) as a testimony to them.”

The Faith of the Centurion^(F)

⁵ When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. ⁶ “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed,^(G) suffering terribly.”

⁷ Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”

⁸ The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.^{(H) 9} For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.^{(I) 11} I say to you that many will come from the east and the west,^(J) and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.^{(K) 12} But the subjects of the kingdom^(L) will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”^(M)

¹³ Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.”^(N) And his servant was healed at that moment.

Jesus Heals Many^(O)

¹⁴ When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. ¹⁵ He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

¹⁶ When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.^{(P) 17} This was to fulfill^(Q) what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:

The Cost of Following Jesus^(S)

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake.^{(T) 19} Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man^(U) has no place to lay his head.”

²¹ Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me,^(V) and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Jesus Calms the Storm^(W)(X)

²³ Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. ²⁴ Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. ²⁵ The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶ He replied, “You of little faith,^(Y) why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.^(Z)

²⁷ The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

Jesus Restores Two Demon-Possessed Men^(AA)

²⁸ When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes,^[c] two demon-possessed^(AB) men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. ²⁹ “What do you want with us,^(AC) Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”^(AD)

³⁰ Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. ³¹ The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

³² He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. ³³ Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. ³⁴ Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.^(AE)

¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well^(A) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.^(B) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^(C) welling up to eternal life.”^(D)

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty^(E) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁶ He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

¹⁷ “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸ The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹ “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.^{(F) 20} Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,^(G) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”^(H)

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming^(I) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^{(J) 22} You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^(K) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^{(L) 23} Yet a time is coming and has now come^(M) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit^(N) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit,^(O) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

²⁵ The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)^(P) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

²⁶ Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”^(Q)

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

²⁷ Just then his disciples returned^(R) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸ Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.^(S) Could this be the Messiah?”^{(T) 30} They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

³¹ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,^(U) eat something.”

³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat^(V) that you know nothing about.”

³³ Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

³⁴ “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will^(W) of him who sent me and to finish his work.^{(X) 35} Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.^{(Y) 36} Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests^(Z) a crop for eternal life,^(AA) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’^(AB) is true. ³⁸ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹ Many of the Samaritans from that town^(AC) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”^{(AD) 40} So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. ⁴¹ And because of his words many more became believers.

⁴² They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”^(AE)

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

⁴³ After the two days^(AF) he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)^{(AG) 45} When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,^(AH) for they also had been there.

⁴⁶ Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.^(AI) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,^(AJ) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁸ “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”^(AK) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

⁴⁹ The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹ While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵² When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

⁵³ Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household^(AL) believed.

⁵⁴ This was the second sign^(AM) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

⁵ “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.

⁸ “‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth,^(A) whom you are persecuting,’ he replied.