The King proves His power and authority by miracles
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📚✭When he had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.He heals a leper
2 📚And, suddenly, a leper✭ came and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean”.
3 📚✭And Jesus put out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean”. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed away. 4 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “See that you do not tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded,✭ as a testimony to them”.
He heals a Roman officers servant
5 📚✭And when Jesus went into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him, 6 📚and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering terribly”.
7 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him”.
8 📚✭The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy for you to come under my roof, but just speak the word and my servant will be healed. 9 📚✭For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this man, ‘Go’, and he goes; and to another, ‘Come’, and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this’, and he does it”.
10 📚✭When Jesus heard this, he marvelled and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel. 11 📚✭And I tell you that many will come from the east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12 📚But the sons of the kingdom✭ will be thrown into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
13 📚✭And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way, and it will be done for you just as you have believed”. And his servant was healed at that very hour.
He heals Peter's mother-in-law
14 📚✭And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. 15 📚✭And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and served them.
He drives out demons
16 📚✭When evening came, they brought many who were possessed by demons to him. And he drove the spirits out with his word, and healed all who were sick, 17 📚✭that what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, who said, “He took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses”.
He gives qualifications for discipleship
18 📚✭Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave an order to go away to the other side of the lake. 19 📚And a certain scribe✭ came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go”.
20 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head”.
21 📚And another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first permit me to go and bury my father”.
22 📚✭But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead”.
He causes a storm to cease
23 📚And when he got into a boat, his disciples followed him, 24 📚and, suddenly, a great tempest arose on the lake, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But he was asleep. 25 📚And his disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
26 📚✭And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the lake. And there was a great calm.
27 📚✭But the men were amazed, saying, “What kind of a man is this that even the winds and the lake obey him!”
He heals two demon-possessed men
28 📚✭And when he arrived at the other side in the country of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, met him. They were so very fierce, that no one could pass by that way. 29 📚✭And now they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the set time?”
30 📚And some distance away a large herd of pigs was feeding. 31 📚✭So the demons begged him, saying, “If you drive us out, let us go into the herd of pigs”.
32 📚And he said to them, “Go”. And when they came out, they went into the herd of pigs, and now the whole herd of pigs rushed down a steep place into the lake and died in the water. 33 📚And those who had been feeding them ran away and went into the city and told everything, and what had happened to those who had been demon-possessed. 34 📚✭And now the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to go away from their region.