{"id":9645,"date":"2024-08-24T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9645"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:29:43","slug":"matthew-chapter-8-jesus-heals-the-man-with-leprosy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9645","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Chapter 8 Jesus heals the man with leprosy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8&nbsp;<\/strong>When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.&nbsp;<sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>A man with leprosy<sup>[<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%208&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-23348a\\\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;came and knelt before him&nbsp;and said, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fb0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cI am willing,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cBe clean!\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.\u00a0<sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus said to him,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f70202\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cSee that you don\u2019t tell anyone.\u00a0But go, show yourself to the priest\u00a0and offer the gift Moses commanded,\u00a0as a testimony to them.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8&nbsp;When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.&nbsp;2&nbsp;A man with leprosy[a]&nbsp;came and knelt before him&nbsp;and said, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.\u201d 3\u00a0Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.\u00a0\u201cI am willing,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cBe clean!\u201d\u00a0Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.\u00a04\u00a0Then Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cSee that you don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Chapter 8 Jesus heals the man with leprosy &#8212; 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