Origen Commentary on John Book VI
Naaman then says, not understanding the great mystery of the Jordan, "Behold, I said that he will certainly come out to me, and will call upon the name of the Lord his God, and lay his hand upon the place, and restore the leper." For to put his hand on the leprosy[138]
Verse Matthew 8:2. _AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER_] The leprosy λεπρα, from λεπις, _a scale_, was an inveterate cutaneous disease, appearing in dry, thin, white scurfy scales or scabs, either on th...
THERE CAME A LEPER - No disease with which the human family has been afflicted has been more dreadful than that which is often mentioned in the Bible “as the leprosy.” It first exhibits itself on the...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), for emphasis. LEPER. See note on Exodus 4:6. WORSHIPPED. did homage. See App-137. The variations in Mark 1, and Luke 5, are due to the fact that they do...
_a leper_ St Luke has "full of leprosy," a term implying the gravity of the disease, not that it covered the whole body, in which case the leper was pronounced clean, Leviticus 13:12-13; Leviticus 13:...
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...
ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘῺΝ for ἐλθών. The termination of λεπρὸς caused the omission of πρὸς before ἐλθών. 2. ΛΕΠΡΌΣ. St Luke has ἀνὴρ πλήρης λέπρας, a term implying the gravity of the disease. In Leviticus 13:13, wher...
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...
ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part._ (со· путств.) от ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) подходить. "Подошел прокаженный..." По поводу использования этого гл. _см._ James R.Edwards, "The Use of ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΕΣΘΑΙ in the Gospel of...
AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER— It has been generally thought, that this is the leper whose cure is recorded, Mark 1:40. Luke 5:12 and consequently that the sermon in Luke is not the same with that i...
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, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER - "a man full of leprosy," says Luke 5:12. Much has been wr...
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...
WORSHIPPED HIM] Lk says, 'fell on his face.' The act of reverence that was paid to kings. Perhaps the leper already regarded Jesus as the Messiah, the rightful king of Israel. He certainly had full fa...
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;...
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...
A LEPER. — The discussion of leprosy, as to its nature, symptoms, and causes, would be at once long and difficult. The word, which is Greek and not Hebrew in its origin, has probably been used with va...
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...
(1) And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. (1) Christ in healing the leprous with the touch of his hand, shows that he abhors no sin...
As the three evangelists relate the cure of the leper in nearly the same words, and with the same circumstances, we may conclude they speak of the same miracles. St. Matthew alone seems to have observ...
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...
_THE SIGNIFICANT UNIT_ ‘And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.’ Matthew 8:2 I. ALONE WITH THE SAVIOUR.—Out of the great multitude...
2._Approaching, worshipped _What is the meaning of the verb προσκυνεῖν, which is rendered in the Latin version, _adorare, _to _adore _or _worship, _may be easily learned from this passage. For the exp...
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 BEHOLD THERE CAME A LEPER,.... As soon as he came down from the mountain, and whilst he was in the way; though Luke says, Luke 5:12 "when he was in a certain city"; in one of the cities of Galilee...
And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Ver. 2. _And, behold, there came a leper_] This leprosy was most rife in our Saviour's time;...
LEPER; leprosy was one of the most filthy, loathsome, and incurable of diseases. THOU CANST; an expression of faith in his almighty power. Whenever Christ wills, our difficulties will be removed; and...
AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER, AND WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, LORD, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN. The evangelist uses the formula for introducing a narrative, for stimulating interest. A leper...
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...
Ver. 1,2. We heard of Christ's going up into the mountain, MATTHEW 6:1; and of great multitudes that followed him from Decapolis, and from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from beyond Jordan: whether th...
Matthew 8:2 And G2532 behold G2400 (G5628) leper G3015 came G2064 (G5631) worshiped G4352 (G5707) Him...
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 behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean”.' ‘Behold.' This is probably to be seen as opening the whole series of incidents. Matthew...
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...
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. WHEN HE CAME DOWN. Comp. Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-15. Notwithstanding the apparently definite statement of Matthew as to time and place, the chronological order of Mark and Luke is more co...
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...
IF THOU WILT (εαν θεληις). The leper knew that Jesus had the power to heal him. His doubt was about his willingness. "Men more easily believe in miraculous power than in miraculous love" (Bruce). T...
BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER The King, having in Chapters 5-7. declared the principles of the kingdom, makes proof, in Chapters 8, 9, of His power to banish from the earth the consequences of sin, and...
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 8:1. _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...
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...
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...
THEN A LEPER CAME TO HIM. Leprosy begins as a skin disease, defies efforts to cure it, and is a kind of "living death." Dr. Schaff says: "Near the Jaffa gate of Jerusalem I saw, in 1877, these miserab...
_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...
1 Corinthians 14:25; 2 Chronicles 26:19; 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 5:1;...
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...
A leper came — Leprosies in those countries were seldom curable by natural means, any more than palsies or lunacy. Probably this leper, though he might not mix with the people, had heard our Lord at a...