This chapter highlights Jesus’s authority over sickness, demons and the elements of nature. Jesus calms storms and casts out demons and sometimes that also makes people afraid.

Matthew 8

When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.

2 A man with leprosy came and worshiped him, saying “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 

3 Jesus reached out his hand, and touched him, saying “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

4 Jesus said to him “See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

5 When Jesus entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, begging him,

6 saying “Lord, my servant lies at home paralyzed, greatly tormented.”

7 And Jesus said to him “I will come and heal him.”

8 The centurion replied “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.

9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

10 When Jesus heard this he was amazed, and said to them that followed “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith anywhere in Israel.

11 And I say to you that many will come from the east and west, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

13 And Jesus said to the centurion “Go your way; and as you have believed, so it shall be done for you.” And his servant was healed in the same hour.

14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying bed sick with a fever.

15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she got up and to began to serve him. 

16 When it was evening, they brought him many that were possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying “Ho took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” 

18 When Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.

19 A scribe came to him and said “Master, I will follow you wherever you go.”

20 Jesus said to him “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man does not have a place to lay his head.”

21 And another of his disciples said to him “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

22 But Jesus said to him “Follow me; and let the dead bury their own dead.”

23 When he had entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

24 Suddenly a great storm arose in the sea, so that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

25 His disciples came and woke him, saying “Lord, save us: we are dying.” 

26 And he said to them “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

27 The men were amazed and asked “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” 

28 When he came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men possessed with demons met him, coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that none could pass that way. 

29 They cried out, saying “What do you have to do with us, Son of God? Are you here to torment us before the time?”

30 There was a herd of pigs feeding in the distance.

31 So the demons begged him, saying “If thou cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of pigs.” 

32 And he said to them “Go.” And when they came out, they went into the herd of pigs: and the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

33 Those tending them fled, and ran into the city, and told everything, and what happened to the men possessed by the demons.

34 Then the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they begged him that he would depart from their coasts.

See also: Matthew 8 in ESV, HCSB, NASB, NIV via Bible Gateway.

Here is a link to George Sinclair via The Gospel Coalition.