| epileptic, and | | palsied; and he | |25 healed them. And | | there followed him | | great multitudes | | from Galilee and | | Decapolis and | | Jerusalem and Judea | | and _from_ beyond | | Jordan. | [Footnote 1: Some ancient authorities read _he_.] [Footnote 2: Or, _good tidings_: and so elsewhere.] [Footnote 3: Or, _demoniacs_.] [Footnote 4: Gr. _demons_.] [Footnote 5: Or, _gospel_.] [Footnote 6: Very many ancient authorities read _Judea_.] [Footnote a: This journey about all Galilee included a _great mass_ of teaching and healing (dwell on Matt. 4:23-25), of which only a few specimens are recorded, and these apparently occurred at Capernaum, his headquarters. The journey given by Luke only (8:1-3) is probably distinct from this, and if so it would be a _second_, while that of Luke 9:1-6 (= Mark 6:6-13 = Matt. 9:35-11:1), which is quite certainly distinct, would then be a _third_ journey about Galilee. The reader ought to expand his imagination and take in these extended labors.] § 45. A LEPER HEALED, AND MUCH POPULAR EXCITEMENT Mark 1:40-45 |Matt. 8:2-4 |Luke 5:12-16 | | 40 And there cometh to| 2 And behold, there |12 And it came to him a leper, | came to him a leper| pass, while he was beseeching him, | and worshipped him,| in one of the [1]and kneeling down | saying, Lord, if | cities, behold, a to him, and saying | thou wilt, thou | man full of unto him, If thou | canst make me | leprosy: and when wilt, thou canst make| clean. | he saw Jesus, he 41 me clean. And being | | fell on his face, moved with | | and besought him, compassion, he | | saying, Lord, if stretched forth his | 3 And he stretched | thou wilt, thou hand, and touched | forth his hand, | canst make me him, and saith unto | and touched him, |13 clean. And he him, I will; be thou | saying, I will; be | stretched forth 42 made clean. And | thou made clean. | his hand, and straightway the | And straightway | touched him, leprosy departed from| his leprosy was | saying, I will; be him, and he was made | cleansed. | thou made clean. 43 clean. And he | | And straightway [2]strictly charged | | the leprosy him, and straightway | | departed from him.