Matthew 8
The Book of Matthew, The Structure of The Book As A Whole
Matthew 8:1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes
followed him.
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
3
And Jesus put forth
his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be
thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 And Jesus
saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a
centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at
home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto
him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said,
Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the
word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under
authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this
man, Go, and
he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this,
and he doeth
it.
10 When Jesus heard
it, he marvelled,
and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so
great faith, no, not in Israel.
11 And I say unto you, That many
shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the children of
the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast
believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in
the selfsame hour.
14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's
mother laid, and sick of a fever.
15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and
ministered unto them.
16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were
possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word,
and healed all that were sick:
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him,
he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will
follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of
the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to
go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury
their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed
him.
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea,
insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little
faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a
great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this,
that even the winds and the sea obey him!
28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the
Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the
tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do
with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us
before the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many
swine feeding.
31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out,
suffer us to go away into the herd of swine
32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they
went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran
violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the
city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of
the devils.
34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and
when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of
their coasts.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.