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Matthew 8:3
And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Verse Matthew 8:3. _JESUS PUT FORTH HIS HAND - I WILL; BE THOU CLEAN._] The most sovereign authority is assumed in this speech of our blessed Lord-I WILL: there is here no supplication of any power _...
AND JESUS ...TOUCHED HIM - It was an offence to the Jews to “touch” a leprous person, and was regarded as making him who did it ceremonially impure, Leviticus 13:3. The act of putting forth his hand a...
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
THE HEALING OF A LEPER (Mark 1:40 *, Luke 5:12). Mt. omits the healing of the demoniac (Mark 1:23), and gives this incident perhaps in illustration of Christ's attitude to the Law. Love is greater tha...
When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and, look you, a leper came to him, and remained kneeling before him. "Lord," he said, "you can cleanse me, if you are willing to...
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
JESUS. All the texts (App-94.) read "He". I WILL. I am willing. See App-102. HIS LEPROSY WAS CLEANSED. Figure of speech _Hypallage_ (App-6). he was cleansed of his leprosy. _Kaharizo_ is found in th...
A LEPER IS CLEANSED St Mark 1:40-44; where this incident is placed in the course of a Galilæan circuit, and before the return to Capernaum. St Luke 5:12, where the cure is placed ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων, an...
The name Ἰησοῦς occurs in this chapter four times against MS. authority,—Matthew 8:3; Matthew 8:5; Matthew 8:7; Matthew 8:29. Such insertions are principally due to t
VER 1. WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM. 2. AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, "LORD, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN." 3. AND JES...
_SOME MIRACLES OF JESUS MATTHEW 8:1-15:_ In Matthew 8:1-4 the great multitudes followed him. They did not follow Him with their hearts but they walked along with Him. A leper came in faith to the only...
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AND JESUS PUT FORTH HIS HAND, &C.— Dr. Doddridge supposes that our Saviour took this leper aside from the multitude, without which he thinks there could have been no room for the charge of secresy whi...
CHAPTER EIGHT Section 12 JESUS HEALS A LEPER (Parallels: Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) TEXT: 8:2-4 2. And behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou cans...
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. AND JESUS (or 'He,' according to another reading) - "moved with compassion,...
12 Compare Luk_6:31. 12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law and the prophets demand compliance with t...
8:3 touched (e-8) As Mark 1:41 ....
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
TOUCHED HIM] No one was allowed to touch or even to salute a leper. If he even put his head into a place it became unclean. No less a distance than 4 cubits (6 ft.) had to be kept from the leper, or i...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
JESUS PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED HIM. — The act was itself a proof at once of the will and the power to heal. He did not fear becoming unclean by that contact, and was therefore not subject to th...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
_The leper_ (Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16). This is the first individual act of healing reported in this Gospel, chap. Matthew 4:23-24 containing only a general notice. It is a very remarkable one. No t...
REWARDS OF FAITH Matthew 8:1-10 The Lord can touch thy heart, leprous with impurity, and make its stain depart, so that, as in the case of Naaman, its foulness shall become like “unto the flesh of a...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
Jesus, stretching forth his hand, touched him. By the law of Moses, whosoever touched a leper, contracted a legal uncleanness: but not by touching in order to heal him, says Theophylactus. Besides, Ch...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
Though this act of cleansing the Leper is by Matthew recorded as the first of CHRIST'S miracles, yet we have no authority so to conclude, for John records the first miracle to have been at the marriag...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_SIN AND ITS CLEANSING_ ‘And Jesus put forth His hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.’ Matthew 8:3 These words, spoken to a leper, were the very last words that any one, save He Who...
3._Having stretched out his hand, he touched _Under the Law, the _touch _of a _leper _was infectious; but as Christ possesses such purity as to repel all filth and defilement, he does not, by touching...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
AND JESUS PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED HIM,.... This is a wonderful instance both of the grace, and goodness of Christ, in touching this loathsome creature; and of his unspotted purity and holiness...
And Jesus put forth _his_ hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Ver. 3. _And Jesus put forth his hand, &c._] The law forbade _contactum conta...
I WILL; in this Jesus showed that he is almighty, according to his declaration in Revelation 1:8....
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
2-4 In these verses we have an account of Christ's cleansing a leper, who came and worshipped him, as one clothed with Divine power. This cleansing directs us, not only to apply to Christ, who has po...
By the law of God, LEVITICUS 5:3, he that touched another who was unclean (as the leper was, LEVITICUS 13:1:57) was unclean; how then doth Christ (who was subject to the law) touch the leper? Some say...
Origen Against Celsus Book I And similarly to this, and more as a matter to be understood by the mind than to be perceived by the senses, Jesus touched the leper,[85]...
Matthew 8:3 Then G2532 Jesus G2424 out G1614 (G5660) hand G5495 touched G680 (G5662) him G846 saying...
JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE COMING ONE BY HIS ACTS OF POWER AND PROCLAMATION OF THE GOOD NEWS (8:1-9). In Matthew 11:4 Jesus sends to a doubting John in prison these words, ‘Tell John the things whic...
THE HEALING OF THE LEPER (8:2-4). Matthew abbreviates this story of the healing of the ‘Leper', bringing out only the essential detail (compare Mark 1:40). For it is that essential detail that he want...
‘And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, “I will. Be you made clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.' We too should pause and worship as we consider this sentence and weig...
Matthew 8:3. AND HE (the best authorities omit ‘Jesus') STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND AND TOUCHED HIM. Such touch was forbidden. Despite the consequent healing, it may have been regarded by the Pharisees a...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
ON OUR LORD'S MIRACLES. The Greek word translated miracle means literally ‘power'; the idea of wondering underlies our word miracle. A miracle is therefore some wonderful display of power; the special...
Matthew 8:1 Jesus and Imperfect Faith. I. Notice the leper's appeal to Christ. This appeal, as every other, must have had some manner of faith to rest upon. The leper believed in a healing virtue nig...
Matthew 8:3 Notice in Christ's touch of the sick I. His fixing and confirming faith in Himself, the Healer. It is in condescension to human weakness that He lays His hands on diseased folk; we believ...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him._ There was a charm about his preaching, not that he modified his doctrine, or that he cut down his precepts; he s...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
JESUS REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED HIM. It was forbidden to touch a leper, and made the one who did it religiously unclean. But when Jesus did this, the leprosy vanished and the man was clean. At the touch...
_And, behold, there came a leper._ THE LEPER’S CURE I. The leper’s faith. II. Christ’s treatment or the leper. 1. That this disease is a type of moral corruption. 2. God’s grace alone can effect...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:2 LEPER. The OT provided specific guidelines for the examination and treatment of those with a variety of skin diseases. Generally called leprosy, many of these diseases were...
JESUS HEALS A MAN WITH LEPROSY MATTHEW 8:2-4; MARK 1:40-45; LUKE 5:12-15; MATTHEW 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:2. AND BEHOLD, etc.—The time of this miracle seems too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose Gospels no such precise n...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
2 Kings 5:11; 2 Kings 5:14; Genesis 1:3; John 11:43; John 15:24;...
THE MIRACLE-WORKING CHRIST Matthew 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God...