Mark 1:38-40

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁸ He answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.” ³⁹ And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

⁴⁰ A leper^[a] came to him begging him, and kneeling^[b] he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.”