Matthew 8 And when He had come down from the mountain : See, large crowds followed Him.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And when He had come down from the mountain [See 5:1], large crowds followed Him. ² Just then a person with an infectious skin disease came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can heal me.” ³ Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man, saying, “I do want to; you are healed.” And immediately his infectious skin disease was healed. ⁴ Jesus said to him, “Be sure you do not tell anyone [about your healing yet]; but [first] go and show yourself to the priest and then offer the [sacrificial] gift required by the law of Moses [See Lev. 13:49; 14:2ff], as evidence to them [that you have been healed].” ⁵ And when He had arrived at Capernaum, a military officer approached Him, begging, ⁶ “Sir, my slave-boy is at home sick in bed with a paralyzing disease and in serious pain.” ⁷ Jesus said, “I will go and heal him.” ⁸ But the military officer answered, “Sir, I do not deserve for you to come into my house; just say the word and [I know] my slave-boy will be healed. ⁹ For I also am a man [who serves] under the authority [of others], and I have soldiers [who serve] under me. I can say to this one ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another one, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ¹⁰ And when Jesus heard this, He was amazed and said to those who were following [along], “It is true when I tell to you, I have never found [anyone with] such great faith, not [even] among the Israelites. ¹¹ And I [also] say to you, that many people will come from the east and the west and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹² But the children who [are supposed to] belong to the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness where there will be crying and excruciating pain.” ¹³ And Jesus said to the military officer, “Go on your way; since you have believed [in my power to heal], what you desired will be done for you.” And the slave-boy was healed that [very] hour. ¹⁴ When Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. ¹⁵ He touched her hand and [immediately] her fever subsided and she got up [out of bed] and waited on Him. ¹⁶ When evening came they brought many persons who were dominated by evil spirits to Jesus and He drove out the spirits with [just] a word and healed all those who were sick. ¹⁷ This was in order to fulfill what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, [Isa. 53:4], “[He] Himself took [care of] our [physical] weaknesses and carried [away] our diseases.” ¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw large crowds around Him, He gave orders [i.e., to His followers] to leave for the other side [i.e., to go from the west to the east side of Lake Galilee]. ¹⁹ [While there] an expert in the law of Moses said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” ²⁰ Jesus replied to him, “The foxes have dens [in which to live] and the birds of the sky have nests [in which to roost]; but the Son of man does not have anywhere to lay His head.” ²¹ Then another one of His disciples said to Him, “Allow me to go and bury my father first.” ²² But Jesus answered him, “Become my follower, and let the [spiritually] dead bury them” [i.e., let a person’s relatives care for their own family members until they die]. ²³ And when He entered a boat, His disciples followed Him. ²⁴ Suddenly a violent storm came up over the lake, so that [huge] waves began to overwhelm the boat. But Jesus was sleeping [through it all]. ²⁵ His disciples came and awoke Him, shouting, “Lord, save us, we are sinking!” ²⁶ And He called to them, “Why are you [so] afraid? You have such little faith!” Then He stood up and sternly commanded the wind and the waves, and they became very calm. ²⁷ The men [on board the boat] marveled, saying, “What kind of a man is this, that even the wind and waves obey Him?” ²⁸ And when He got to the other side [i.e., the east side of the lake], He was in the district of the Gadarenes. There He was met by two men dominated by evil spirits. They came from the graveyard [where they lived] and were so fierce that no one could [safely] travel that road. ²⁹ Suddenly they shouted out, “What do you want with us, you Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before it is time to?” [i.e., before our punishment is due. See II Pet. 2:4; Jude 6]. ³⁰ Now a large herd of [wild] hogs [i.e., about 2000 of them. See Mark 5:13] was grazing some distance away from them. ³¹ So, the evil spirits [in one of the men. See Mark 5:1ff] begged Jesus, saying, “If you are going to drive us out [of this man], send us away into that herd of [wild] hogs.” ³² Jesus replied to them, “Go [ahead].” And they came out [of the man] and entered the [wild] hogs, and suddenly the entire herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned in the water [below]. ³³ [Upon seeing this happen] the men who were tending the herd ran away and went into the town [i.e., of Gadara, one of ten towns making up the province of Decapolis], and told the people everything, [including] what had happened to the men dominated by evil spirits. ³⁴ Quickly, all the people of the town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw Him, they urged Him to leave the district [i.e., probably because of the loss of livestock].