Matthew 8

1When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.Cross-references: Matt 4:25 · Matt 8:18 · Matt 12:15 · Matt 15:30 · Matt 19:2 · Matt 20:29 · +3 more

2Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”Cross-references: Lev 13:44 · Num 5:2 · Num 12:10 · Deut 24:8 · 2Sam 3:39 · 2Ki 5:1 · +28 more

3Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · 2Ki 5:11 · 2Ki 5:14 · Ps 33:9 · Matt 11:4 · Mark 1:41 · +10 more

4Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”Cross-references: Lev 13:2 · Lev 14:2 · 2Ki 5:7 · Isa 42:21 · Matt 3:15 · Matt 5:17 · +19 more

5When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help,Cross-references: Matt 4:13 · Matt 9:1 · Matt 11:23 · Matt 27:54 · Mark 2:1 · Mark 15:39 · +8 more

6saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”Cross-references: Job 31:13 · Matt 4:24 · Matt 9:2 · Mark 2:3 · Acts 8:7 · Acts 9:33 · +5 more

7Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”Cross-references: Matt 9:18 · Mark 5:23 · Luke 7:6

8The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.Cross-references: Gen 32:10 · Num 20:8 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 33:9 · Ps 107:20 · Matt 3:11 · +10 more

9For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”Cross-references: Job 38:34 · Ps 107:25 · Ps 119:91 · Ps 148:8 · Jer 47:6 · Ezek 14:17 · +7 more

10When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.Cross-references: Matt 15:28 · Mark 6:6 · Luke 5:20 · Luke 7:9 · Luke 7:50

11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 28:14 · Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 98:3 · +32 more

12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”Cross-references: Matt 3:9 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 13:38 · Matt 13:42 · Matt 13:50 · Matt 21:43 · +9 more

13Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.Cross-references: Eccl 9:7 · Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:22 · Matt 9:29 · Matt 15:28 · Matt 17:20 · +4 more

14When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.Cross-references: Matt 8:20 · Matt 17:25 · Mark 1:29 · Luke 4:38 · 1Cor 9:5 · 1Tim 3:2 · +2 more

15He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:21 · Isa 6:7 · Matt 8:3 · Matt 9:20 · Matt 9:29 · Matt 14:36 · +6 more

16When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 8:33 · Matt 9:2 · Matt 12:22 · Matt 14:14 · +8 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”Cross-references: Isa 53:4 · Matt 1:22 · Matt 2:15 · Matt 2:23 · 1Pet 2:24Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.Cross-references: Matt 8:1 · Matt 14:22 · Mark 1:35 · Mark 4:35 · Mark 5:21 · Mark 6:45 · +4 more

19A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”Cross-references: Ezra 7:6 · Mark 12:32 · Luke 9:57 · Luke 14:25 · Luke 14:33 · Luke 22:33 · +2 more

20Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”Cross-references: Ps 40:17 · Ps 69:29 · Ps 84:3 · Ps 104:17 · Ps 109:22 · Isa 53:2 · +13 more

21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”Cross-references: Lev 21:11 · Num 6:6 · Deut 33:9 · 1Ki 19:20 · Hag 1:2 · Matt 19:29 · +2 more

22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”Cross-references: Matt 4:18 · Matt 9:9 · Luke 15:32 · John 1:43 · Eph 2:1 · Eph 2:5 · +3 more

23When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.Cross-references: Matt 9:1 · Mark 4:36 · Luke 7:22 · Luke 8:22

24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves; but he was asleep.Cross-references: Ps 107:23 · Isa 54:11 · Jonah 1:4 · Mark 4:37 · Luke 8:23 · John 6:17 · +4 more

25The disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”Cross-references: 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 20:12 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 44:22 · Isa 51:9 · Jonah 1:6 · +2 more

26He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.Cross-references: Job 38:8 · Ps 65:7 · Ps 89:9 · Ps 93:3 · Ps 104:6 · Ps 107:28 · +16 more

27The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”Cross-references: Matt 14:33 · Matt 15:31 · Mark 1:27 · Mark 6:51 · Mark 7:37

28When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.Cross-references: Gen 10:16 · Gen 15:21 · Deut 7:1 · Judg 5:6 · Matt 4:24 · Mark 5:1 · +2 more

29Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”Cross-references: Judg 11:12 · 2Sam 16:10 · 2Sam 19:22 · 1Ki 17:18 · Joel 3:4 · Matt 4:3 · +11 more

30Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.Cross-references: Lev 11:7 · Deut 14:8 · Isa 65:3 · Isa 66:3 · Mark 5:11 · Luke 8:32 · +1 more

31The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”Cross-references: Mark 5:7 · Mark 5:12 · Luke 8:30 · Rev 12:12 · Rev 20:1

32He said to them, “Go!” They came out and went into the herd of pigs; and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:22 · Job 1:10 · Job 2:3 · Mark 5:13 · Luke 8:33 · Acts 2:23 · +2 more

33Those who fed them fled and went away into the city and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.Cross-references: Mark 5:14 · Luke 8:34 · Acts 19:15

34Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.Cross-references: Deut 5:25 · 1Sam 16:4 · 1Ki 17:18 · 1Ki 18:17 · Job 21:14 · Job 22:17 · +6 more