² Suddenly someone with a virulent skin disease approached, and knelt down in front of him.

“Master,” he said, “if you want, you can make me clean!”

³ Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him.

“I do want to,” he said. “Be clean!” At once his disease was cured.

⁴ “Take care,” Jesus said to him, “not to say anything to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering which Moses commanded. That will be a proof to them.”