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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 8 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Matthew 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/7.htm" title="Matthew 7">◄</a> Matthew 8 <a href="../matthew/9.htm" title="Matthew 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/matthew/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus reached out and touched him. <span class="red">“I am willing,”</span> he said. <span class="red">“Be healed!”</span> And instantly the leprosy disappeared. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to him, <span class="red">“Don’t tell anyone about this. Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> This will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed.”</span></p><p class="hdg">The Faith of a Roman Officer</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When Jesus returned to Capernaum, a Roman officer<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> came and pleaded with him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Lord, my young servant<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> lies in bed, paralyzed and in terrible pain.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="red">“I will come and heal him.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the officer said, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to those who were following him, he said, <span class="red">“I tell you the truth, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">And I tell you this, that many Gentiles will come from all over the world—from east and west—and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of Heaven.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">But many Israelites—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—will be thrown into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to the Roman officer, <span class="red">“Go back home. Because you believed, it has happened.”</span> And the young servant was healed that same hour.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals Many People</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and he healed all the sick. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“He took our sicknesses</p><p class="line2">and removed our diseases.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="hdg">The Cost of Following Jesus</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he instructed his disciples to cross to the other side of the lake.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then one of the teachers of religious law said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> has no place even to lay his head.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Another of his disciples said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But Jesus told him, <span class="red">“Follow me now. Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a>”</span></p><p class="hdg">Jesus Calms the Storm</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus responded, <span class="red">“Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!”</span> Then he got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly there was a great calm.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!”</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals Two Demon-Possessed Men</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> two men who were possessed by demons met him. They came out of the tombs and were so violent that no one could go through that area.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They began screaming at him, “Why are you interfering with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before God’s appointed time?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding in the distance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So the demons begged, “If you cast us out, send us into that herd of pigs.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">“All right, go!”</span> Jesus commanded them. So the demons came out of the men and entered the pigs, and the whole herd plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The herdsmen fled to the nearby town, telling everyone what happened to the demon-possessed men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus, but they begged him to go away and leave them alone.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:4 </span><span class="ft">See Lev 14:2-32.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:5 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">a centurion;</span><span class="ft"> similarly in 8:8, 13.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">child;</span><span class="ft"> also in 8:13.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:17 </span><span class="ft">Isa 53:4.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:20 </span><span class="ft">“Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:22 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Let the dead bury their own dead.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="ft">Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">Gerasenes;</span><span class="ft"> still others read </span><span class="it">Gergesenes.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Mark 5:1; Luke 8:26.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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