Matthew - Chapter 8

1 As he descended from the mountain very large crowds of people gathered around him. 2 And behold, a certain leper came and worshipped him, and said: Mari, if you desire, you can make me clean. 3 And Yeshua stretched forth his hand, touched him, and said: I do so desire. Be clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Yeshua said to him, See, that you tell no man: but go, show yourself to the priests, and present an offering as Mosha has commanded, for their testimony.

5 Now when Yeshua had entered into K'far Nachum, a certain centurion came to him, and begged him, 6 and said: Lord, my boy lies at home and is paralytic, and badly afflicted. 7 Yeshua said to him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion replied, and said: My Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but simply speak the word and my boy will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, and there are soldiers under my hands, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this thing, and he does it.

10 And when Yeshua heard this, he was moved by it; and he said to those walking with him, Truly I say to you, not even in Yisrael have I found faith like this. 11 And I say to you, that many shall come from the east, and from the west, and shall recline with Avraham and Yitzchak and Ya'aqub, in the kingdom of heaven; 12 but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

13 And Yeshua said to the centurion. Go; it will be to you as you have believed. And his boy was cured in that moment.

14 And Yeshua came to the house of Shimon and saw the mother of his wife lying down, confined by a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose and was serving him.

16 And when it was evening, they brought many who were possessed before him; and he cast out their demons by a word, and all of those who were diseased were healed 17 so that it might be fulfilled that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, who said: He will bear our sorrows, and our sicknesses he will bear.

18 When Yeshua saw the many crowds around him, he instructed that they should go to the other side. 19 And a scribe came and said to him: Rabbi, I will follow you to the place where you go. 20 Yeshua said to him: "For foxes there are holes, and for the birds of heaven there are nests; but for the Son of Man, there is nowhere he may rest his head." 21 And another of his talmidim said to him: "Mari, allow me first to go and bury my father." 22 But Yeshua said to him: "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead." 23 And when Yeshua went up into the ship, his talmidim went up with him.

24 And behold, a great storm was on the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves. And by this time Yeshua was asleep. 25 His talmidim came to him and woke him up, saying to him: "Maran*, deliver us; we are perishing!" 26 Yeshua said to them: "Why are you so afraid, oh little of faith!" Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the sea; and there came to be a great calmness. 27 And the men were amazed; and they said: "Who is this that the winds and the sea are obedient to him!"

28 When Yeshua arrived on the other side, in the area of the Gadarenes, there were two people that were possessed who met him, who had come out from the cemetery, very enraged, so that no one could pass by that way. 29 And they cried out, and said: "What have we to do with you? Yeshua, Son of God, have you come here before the time to torment us?" 30 And at a distance from them there was a large herd of swine feeding 31 and the demons begged him, and said: "If you cast us out, allow us to go into the herd of swine." 32 And Yeshua said to them, "Go!" And immediately they came out, and entered into the swine; and that whole herd ran straight to a cliff and plunged into the sea, and perished in the waters. 33 And those who were herding fled, and entered the city and told of all that had happened, and concerning the people who were possessed. 34 And all those in the village came out to meet with Yeshua and when they saw him, they begged him to depart from their borders.