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even ­g ives or­ders to im­pure spir­its and
they obey him.” 28  News ­about him ­spread
quick­ly over the ­whole re­gion of Gal­i­lee.
Jesus Heals Many
29  As
soon as they left the syn­a­gogue,
they went with ­James and John to the
home of Si­mon and An­d rew. 30  Si­mon’s
moth­er-in-law was in bed with a fe­ver,
and they im­me­di­ate­ly told ­Jesus ­about her.
31  So he went to her, took her hand and
helped her up. The fe­ver left her and she
be­gan to wait on them.
32  That eve­n ing af­ter sun­set the peo­ple
brought to ­Jesus all the sick and de­mon-
pos­sessed. 33  The ­whole town gath­ered at
the door, 34  and ­Jesus ­healed many who
had var­i­ous dis­eas­es. He also ­d rove out
many de­mons, but he ­would not let the
de­mons ­speak be­cause they knew who he
was.
Jesus Prays in a Solitary Place
35  Very
ear­ly in the morn­ing, ­while it
was ­still dark, ­Jesus got up, left the ­house
and went off to a sol­i­tary ­place, ­where he
prayed. 36  Si­mon and his com­pan­ions went
to look for him, 37  and when they ­found
him, they ex­c laimed: “Ev­ery­one is look­
ing for you!”
38  Jesus re­plied, “Let us go some­where
else — ​to the near­by vil­lag­es — ​so I can
preach ­t here also. That is why I have
come.” 39  So he trav­eled through­out Gal­
i­lee, preach­ing in ­t heir syn­a­gogues and
driv­ing out de­mons.
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
40  A
man with lep­ro­sy  a came to him and
begged him on his ­k nees, “If you are will­
ing, you can make me clean.”
41  Jesus was in­d ig­n ant.  b He ­reached
out his hand and ­touched the man. “I am
will­i ng,” he said. “Be ­c lean!” 42  Im­me­
di­ate­ly the lep­ro­s y left him and he was
cleansed.
43  Jesus sent him away at once with a
strong warn­i ng: 44  “See that you ­don’t
tell this to any­one. But go, show your­self
to the ­priest and of­fer the sac­r i­f ic­es that
Mo­ses com­mand­ed for your cleans­ing, as
a tes­t i­mo­ny to them.” 45  In­stead he went
out and be­gan to talk free­ly, spread­ing the
news. As a re­sult, ­Jesus ­could no lon­ger
en­ter a town open­ly but ­stayed out­side in
lone­ly plac­es. Yet the peo­ple ­still came to
him from ev­ery­where.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a
Paralyzed Man
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A few days lat­er, when ­Jesus ­again
en­tered Ca­per­na­u m, the peo­ple
heard that he had come home.
2  They gath­e red in such ­l arge num­b ers
that ­there was no room left, not even out­
side the door, and he ­preached the word to
them. 3  Some men came, bring­ing to him
a par­a ­lyzed man, car­ried by four of them.
4  Since they ­could not get him to ­Jesus be­
cause of the ­crowd, they made an open­ing
in the roof ­above ­Jesus by dig­ging ­through
it and then low­ered the mat the man was
ly­ing on. 5  When ­Jesus saw ­their ­faith, he
said to the par­a ­lyzed man, “Son, your sins
are for­giv­en.”
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Mark 2:4
The paralytic man had the best friends
in the world. They tried everything
to get him to ­Jesus. They went so far
that they broke up the tiles and stones
on a roof and dug a hole through it.
“Excuse us, coming through!”
6  Now some teach­ers of the law were
sit­t ing ­there, think­i ng to them­s elves,
7  “Why does this fel­low talk like that?
He’s blas­phem­ing! Who can for­g ive sins
but God alone?”
8  Im­me­d i­ate­ly ­Jesus knew in his spir­it
that this was what they were think­ing in
t heir ­hearts, and he said to them, “Why
are you think­ing ­these ­things? 9  Which is
eas­i­er: to say to this par­a ­lyzed man, ‘Your
sins are for­giv­en,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take
a  40 
The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy
was used for various diseases affecting the skin.   
Many manuscripts Jesus was filled with compassion   
b  41