11. Many people will come from the east and from the west. They will sit and eat with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12. And those people who should have the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness. In that place people will cry and grind their teeth with pain.”
13. Then Jesus said to the officer, “Go home. Your servant will be healed just as you believed he would.” And at that same time his servant was healed.
14. Jesus went to Peter’s house. There Jesus saw that Peter’s mother-in-law was in bed with a high fever.
15. Jesus touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she stood up and began to serve Jesus.
16. That evening people brought to Jesus many who had demons. Jesus spoke and the demons left them. Jesus healed all the sick.
17. He did these things to make come true what Isaiah the prophet said:“He took our suffering on him.And he felt our pain for us.” Isaiah 53:4
18. When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he told his followers to go to the other side of the lake.
19. Then a teacher of the law came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, I will follow you any place you go.”
20. Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests to live in. But the Son of Man has no place where he can rest his head.”