Matthew 8:11-34

11I tell you, many people will come from all over the world to take their place in the kingdom of heaven. There they will sit down to eat with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

12But other people who think that God's kingdom belongs to them will not be there. God's angels will throw them into the dark places that are far away from God. There those people will weep very much. They will bite their teeth together.’

13Then Jesus said to the officer, ‘Go home. You believed that I would make your servant well again. So I will do it for you.’ At that moment, the servant did become well again.

14Jesus went into Peter's house. There, he saw the mother of Peter's wife. She was lying in bed. She was ill and her body was very hot.

15Jesus touched her hand and immediately she was well again. So she got up and she prepared food for Jesus.

16That evening, people brought to Jesus many people who were ill. Many of them had bad spirits in them. Jesus spoke a word so that the bad spirits left them. He made everybody who was ill well again.

17Jesus did this so that the words of the prophet Isaiah would become true: ‘He took away everything that makes us weak. He carried away everything that makes us ill.’

18One day, Jesus saw a large crowd of people around him. So he told his disciples, ‘We should go across the lake to the other side.’

19A teacher of God's Law came to Jesus and said to him, ‘Teacher, I will go with you everywhere that you go.’

20Jesus replied, ‘Wild animals and birds have their own places to live. But I, the Son of Man, have no place of my own to lie down and rest.’

21Another man who was one of Jesus' disciples said to him, ‘Sir, I want to come with you. But first, let me go home and bury my father. Then I will come with you.’

22Jesus said to him, ‘No! You must come with me now. Let those people who are dead themselves bury their own dead people.’

23Then Jesus got into a boat. His disciples also went with him.

24Immediately a great storm began to blow across the lake. Water began to go into the boat and fill it. Jesus was sleeping.

25The disciples went to him and they woke him. ‘Master, save us!’ they said. ‘We will die here in the water!’

26Jesus said to them, ‘You should not be so afraid. You should trust me more than you do!’ Then he stood up and he spoke strongly to the wind and the water. ‘Stop!’ he said. Then the wind and the water became quiet again.

27The disciples were very surprised. They asked each other, ‘What kind of man is this? Even the wind and the water obey him!’

28Jesus arrived at the other side of Lake Galilee. He came to a place where the Gadarene people lived. Two men who had bad spirits in them came to meet him. These men lived outside, among some graves. They were very strong and dangerous. People were too afraid to walk that way because of them.

29When the two men saw Jesus, they immediately shouted at him, ‘You are the Son of God! What are you doing here? Have you come to punish us before the right time comes?’

30A large group of pigs was eating there, not very far away.

31The bad spirits said to Jesus, ‘If you make us leave these men, please send us to those pigs. Let us go into them.’

32Jesus said to the bad spirits, ‘Go!’ So the bad spirits came out of the men and they went into the pigs. All the pigs rushed together down the hill into the lake. They all died there in the water.

33When this happened, the men who took care of the pigs ran away. They went into the town. They told people there everything that had happened to the men with the bad spirits in them.

34So everybody came out of the town to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they said, ‘Please go away. Leave our part of the country.’