[5:12] Once Jesus was in a town where there was a man who was suffering from a dreaded skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he threw himself down and begged him, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean!”
[5:13] Jesus reached out and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the disease left the man.
[5:14] Jesus ordered him, “Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice as Moses ordered.”
[5:15] But the news about Jesus spread all the more widely, and crowds of people came to hear him and be healed from their diseases.
[5:16] But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.