The Leper’s Prayer
Leviticus 14:1–32; Mark 1:40–45; Luke 5:12–16
1When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.+ 2Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”+ 3Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.+ 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.”+The Faith of the Centurion
5When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,+ 6and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”+ 7Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”+ 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.+ 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.”+ 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. + 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, + 12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”+ 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.+Jesus Heals at Peter’s House
14When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.+ 15He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him. + 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;+ 17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”+The Cost of Discipleship
Luke 9:57–62; Luke 14:25–33; John 6:59–66
18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.+ 19A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”+ 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.”+ 21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”+ 22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”+Jesus Calms the Storm
Psalm 107:1–43; Mark 4:35–41; Luke 8:22–25
23When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.+ 24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.+ 25They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”+ 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.+ 27The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”+