Mark 1:37–45

³⁷They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”↗

³⁸He said to them,“Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”↗

³⁹He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.↗

⁴⁰A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”↗

⁴¹Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him,“I want to. Be made clean.”↗

⁴²When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean.↗

⁴³He strictly warned him and immediately sent him out,↗

⁴⁴and said to him,“See that you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”↗

⁴⁵But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.↗