He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
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He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
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And he strethed forth the hond and touched him sayinge: I will be thou cleane. And immediatly the leprosy departed from him.
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So he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane. And immediately the leprosie departed from him.
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- Matthew 9:29-30 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.” Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”
- John 4:50-53 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
- 2 Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
- Hosea 14:4 “I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- Genesis 1:9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- 2 Kings 5:10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”
- Psalms 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Ezekiel 36:25-27 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
- Luke 4:39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
- Luke 8:54-55 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!” Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
- Genesis 1:3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 13 And he put forth his hand, and touched…
13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Ver. 13. I will, be thou clean] So ready is Christ to gratify his suppliants, yea, to be commanded by them, Isa 45:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he put forth his hand and touched him,....…
And he put forth his hand and touched him,.... Having compassion on him, and commiserating his sad case:
saying, I will, be thou clean; and immediately the leprosy departed from him; See Gill on Mat 8:3.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The law forbade lepers to be touched; but he,…
The law forbade lepers to be touched; but he, who is the Lord of the law, dispenses with it. He touches the leper, not because he could not cleanse him without it, but in order to shew that he was not subject to the law, nor to fear of any infection. At the touch of Christ leprosy is dispelled, which before communicated contagion to all that touched it. (St. Ambrose)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. and touched him] This was a distinct violation…
13. and touched him] This was a distinct violation of the letter, but not of course of the spirit of the Mosaic law (Lev_13:46; Num_5:2). In order to prevent the accidental violation of this law, lepers, until the final stage of the disease, were then as now secluded from all living contact with others, “differing in nothing from a dead man” (Jos. Ant. iii. 11 § 3), and only appeared in public with the cry Tamê, Tamê—‘Unclean! Unclean!’ But Jesus, “because He is the Lord of the Law, does not obey the Law, but makes the Law” (St Ambrose); or rather, he obeys that divine eternal Law of Compassion, in its sudden impulse (σπλαγχνισθεὶς, Mar_1:40), which is older and grander than the written Law. (So Elijah and Elisha had not scrupled to touch the dead, 1Ki_17:21; 2Ki_4:34.) His touching the leper, yet remaining clean, is a type of His taking our humanity upon Him, remaining undefiled.
I will: be thou clean] Two words in the original—“a prompt echo to the ripe faith of the leper”—which are accurately preserved by all three Evangelists. Our Lord’s first miracles were done with a glad spontaneity in answer to faith. But when men had ceased to believe in Him, then lack of faith rendered His later miracles more sad and more delayed (Mar_6:5; Mat_13:58). We never however hear of a moment s delay in attending to the cry of a leper. When the sinner cries from his heart, “I have sinned against the Lord,” the answer comes instantly, “The Lord also hath put away thy sin” (2Sa_12:13).
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the leprosy departed] Jesus was not polluted by the touch, but the leper was cleansed. Even so he touched our sinful nature, yet without sin (H. de St Victore).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he put forth his hand, mad touched him,…
And he put forth his hand, mad touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. St. Mark adds here, "being touched with compassion." The Redeemer, at the sight of the man"s awful wretchedness wasting away, shunned by all men, dragging on a hopeless, aimless, weary life in his Divine pity, with a sudden impulse tosses aside all considerations of ceremonial uncleanness or contagion, and lays his hand on the miserable sufferer from whom all shrank, with his word of power exclaimed, "I will: be thou clean." St. Ambrose writes here how "Jesus, because he is the Lord of the Law, does not obey the Law, but makes the Law." "Here Jesus obeys that Divine eternal law of compassion, in its sudden impulse, which is older and grander than the written Law" (Farrar). It is observable that in these sudden cases, in which the common brotherhood of man was involved, the nobler spirits of Israel ever rose above all consideration of law and custom, and, putting aside all legal, orthodox restriction, obeyed at once the sovereign dictates of the heart. So Elijah and Elisha, those true saints of God, shrank not from touching the dead.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:13 Jesus reached out and touched him: Most people…
5:13 Jesus reached out and touched him: Most people feared catching the disease through physical contact, but Jesus showed compassion. Jesus was not contaminated by disease or evil, but brought healing and salvation. • Be healed: Literally Be cleansed. This act had spiritual and physical significance, since leprosy separated Israelites from social contact and religious practice.
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