Bible: Matt 8:1, 5, 16, 28; 9:32, 33; 17:14, 22, 24, 26; 18:24, 25
Cleansing a Leper
8:1 After he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.
Healing the Centurion’s Servant
8:5 When he entered Capernaum, 1 a centurion 2 came to him asking for help: 3 8:16 When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick. 4
Healing the Gadarene Demoniacs
8:28 When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, 5 two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.
God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah
9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
17:14 Any uncircumcised male 1 who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off 2 from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.” 3 17:22 When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. 4 17:24 Now Abraham was 99 years old 5 when he was circumcised; 6 17:26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.
18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare 1 the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it? 18:25 Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge 2 of the whole earth do what is right?” 3
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