Luke 5:13

First Nations Version

Creator Sets Free (Jesus), stirred with compassion, reached out and touched the man. “I want to!” he said. “Be cleansed!” And right away the disease left him and he was healed.

Cross References

Luke 4:39

He went and stood over her and told the fever to go, and it left! With a glad heart she got up and went to prepare a meal for them.

Matthew 8:3

“I want to!” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) said as he reached out and touched the man. Tribal law says that anyone who touches anything unclean would also be unclean and in need of cleansing. But Creator Sets Free (Jesus), instead of becoming unclean himself, cleansed the man with his touch. “Be clean!” he said, and right away the disease left the man and he was healed.

Luke 5:12

While he was in one of these villages, a man with a skin disease all over his body came to Creator Sets Free (Jesus). He humbled himself, bowed down, and pleaded with him. “Honored One!” he cried. “If you want to, you can heal and cleanse me.”

Luke 5:14

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) sent him away at once. “Tell no one!” he said. “Go and show yourself to a holy man and have him perform the cleansing ceremony given to us by the lawgiver Drawn from the Water (Moses), to show the holy man what the Great Spirit has done for you.” Tribal law instructed that a person healed of a skin disease must be pronounced ceremonially clean by a holy man.