Mark 1:40-44

J.B. Phillips New Testament

Jesus cures leprosy

⁴⁰ Then a leper came to Jesus, knelt in front of him and appealed to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”

⁴¹ Jesus was filled with pity for him, and stretched out his hand and placed it on the leper, saying, “Of course I want to—be clean!”

^42-44 At once the leprosy left him and he was quite clean. Jesus sent him away there and then with the strict injunction, “Mind you say nothing at all to anybody. Go straight off and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing which Moses prescribed, as public proof of your recovery.”