World English Bible
Matthew 8:18
“Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.”
Verse in context — Matthew 8
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When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.
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Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
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A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.
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Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
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