Matthew 17:14An Understandable Version (2005 edition)When Jesus and His disciples met the crowd [that was gathered], a man came kneeling down to Jesus and saying to Him, See the chapter |
Then a person with an infectious skin disease came to Jesus and, kneeling down before Him, begged Him, saying, “If you want to, you can heal me.” [Note: Throughout this narrative the terms “heal/healing” are originally “clean/cleansing” because the Jews viewed a person with such a disease as ceremonially “unclean.” See Lev. 13:1-3].