40 A leper 1 came to him begging him, and kneeling 2 he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean." 41 Moved with pity, 3 Jesus 4 stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean!" 42 Immediately the leprosy 5 left him, and he was made clean. 43 After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, 44 saying to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." 45 But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus 6 could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.