And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”

And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”

And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”

They were even more astonished and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?”

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.