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III.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS PREACHED
A. NARRATIVE SECTION: TEN MIRACLES
Cure of a leper
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After he had come down from the mountain large crowds followed him.
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A leper now came up and bowed low in front of him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’
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Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!’ And his leprosy was cured at once.
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Then Jesus said to him, ‘Mind you do not tell anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering prescribed by Moses, as evidence for them’.
Cure of the centurion’s servant
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When he went into Capernaum a centurion came up and pleaded with him.
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‘Sir,’ he said ‘my servant is lying at home paralysed, and in great pain.’
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‘I will come myself and cure him’ said Jesus.
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The centurion replied, ‘Sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof; just give the word and my servant will be cured.
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For I am under authority myself, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one man: Go, and he goes; to another: Come here, and he comes; to my servant: Do this, and he does it.’
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When Jesus heard this he was astonished and said to those following him, ‘I tell you solemnly, nowhere in Israel have I found faith like this.
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And I tell you that many will come from east and west to take their places with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of heaven;
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but the subjects of the kingdom[*a] will be turned out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’
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And to the centurion Jesus said, ‘Go back, then; you have believed, so let this be done for you’. And the servant was cured at that moment.
Cure of Peter’s mother-in-law
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And going into Peter’s house Jesus found Peter’s mother-in-law in bed with fever.
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He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.
A number of cures
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That evening they brought him many who were possessed by devils. He cast out the spirits with a word and cured all who were sick.
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This was to fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah: He took our sicknesses away and carried our diseases for us.[*b]
Hardships of the apostolic calling
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When Jesus saw the great crowds all about him he gave orders to leave for the other side.[*c]
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One of the scribes then came up and said to him, ‘Master, I will follow you wherever you go’.
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Jesus replied, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’.
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Another man, one of his disciples, said to him, ‘Sir, let me go and bury my father first’.
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But Jesus replied, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead’.
The calming of the storm
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Then he got into the boat followed by his disciples.
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Without warning a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the waves were breaking right over the boat. But he was asleep.
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So they went to him and woke him saying, ‘Save us, Lord, we are going down!’
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And he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened, you men of little faith?’ And with that he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and all was calm again.
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The men were astounded and said, ‘Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.’
The demoniacs of Gadara
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When he reached the country of the Gadarenes on the other side, two demoniacs came towards him out of the tombs – creatures so fierce that no one could pass that way.
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They stood there shouting, ‘What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before the time?'[*d]
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Now some distance away there was a large herd of pigs feeding,
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and the devils pleaded with Jesus, ‘If you cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs’.
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And he said to them, ‘Go then’, and they came out and made for the pigs; and at that the whole herd charged down the cliff into the lake and perished in the water.
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The swineherds ran off and made for the town, where they told the whole story, including what had happened to the demoniacs.
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At this the whole town set out to meet Jesus; and as soon as they saw him they implored him to leave the neighbourhood.
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