有一个长大麻疯的,来求耶稣,向他跪下说,你若肯,必能叫我洁净了。And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
对他说,你要谨慎,什么话都不可告诉人。只要去把身体给祭司察看,又因为你洁净了,献上摩西所吩咐的礼物,对众人作证据。And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
那人出去,倒说许多的话,把这件事传扬开了,叫耶稣以后不得再明明的进城,只好在外边旷野地方。人从各处都就了他来。But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
就有许多人聚集,甚至连进门前都没有空地,耶稣就对他们讲道。And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.