Matthew 8:3

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 the Church lectionaries, the proper name being introduced at the commencement of a passage selected for reading.

3. ἥψατο. An act that would bring with it legal defilement. St Mark gives the motive of Jesus in the cure σπλαγχνισθείς, ‘from compassion;’ both he and St Luke express the healing somewhat more vividly: ἀπῆλθεν�ʼ αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα.