Don't tell anyone. This was forbidden until the man was officially pronounced healed. He could not mix with people until the priest had examined him and certified him clean. The man might have prejudiced his case with the priest by telling how it happened. And, Jesus didn't try to impress people. Offer the sacrifice. Leviticus 14:10; Leviticus 14:22; Leviticus 14:30-31.
Verse Matthew 8:4. _JESUS SAITH - SEE THOU TELL NO MAN_] Had our Lord, at this early period, fully manifested himself _as the Messiah_, the people in all likelihood would have proclaimed him King; th...
SEE THOU TELL NO MAN - This command is to be understood as extending only to the time until he had made the proper representation to the priest. It was his duty to hasten to him immediately Leviticus...
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...
NO MAN. no one. GO. To Jerusalem. SHEW THYSELF, &C. See Leviticus 14:4. MOSES. The _first_ of eighty occurrences of "Moses" in the N.T. _Thirty-eight_ in the Gospels (see the first occurrence in eac...
_the gift that Moses commanded_ "two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet and hyssop." And on the eighth day "two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without ble...
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...
ΛΈΓΕΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. St Mark has ἐμβριμησάμενος ἐξέβαλεν αὐτὸν καὶ εἶπεν. ὍΡΑ ΜΗΔΕΝῚ ΕἼΠΗΙΣ. Christ enjoins the cleansed leper to tell no one, thus instructing us that He would not have people converted by...
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...
ΌΡΑ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) смотреть, ΕΪΠΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Conj._ выражает отр. повеление (RG, 854, 932). ΎΠΑΓΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΥΠΆΓΩ (G5217) идти,...
SEE THOU TELL NO MAN— Jesus commanded the leper without all delay to haste to Jerusalem, lest, if the report of his cure should arrive before him, the priests, through envy, might refuse to pronounce...
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 saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. AND JESUS ("STRAITLY CHARGED HIM, AND...
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...
8:4 for (f-25) _ Eis_ . as ch. 12.20, 'unto.'...
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;...
SEE THOU TELL NO MAN] According to St. Mark He dismissed the man abruptly, almost violently, with an urgent command to be silent. Only one explanation of this is at all probable. He feared, as in John...
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...
SEE THOU TELL NO MAN. — St. Mark adds, with his usual vividness, “straitly charged,” or vehemently urged him, and “forthwith sent him away.” The reasons of the command are not given, but are not far t...
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...
ὅρα, see to it! Look you! imperative in mood and _tone_ (_vide_ Mark's graphic account). Christ feared the man would be content with being well without being officially pronounced clean physically hea...
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...
For a testimony to them. That is, when the priest finds thee truly cured, make that offering which is ordained in the law. (Witham) --- He did this to give us an example of humility, and that the prie...
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...
4._And Jesus saith to him, See that thou tell it not to any one _Some persons, by way of excusing the _leper, _think that Christ did not seriously forbid him to publish the miracle, but rather gave hi...
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 SAITH UNTO HIM, SEE THOU TELL NO MAN, c] Not that this fact could be concealed, if it was done publicly, before the multitude nor was it Christ's design that it should be; only it was his co...
And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. Ver. 4. _See thou tell no man_] Christ...
_Jesus saith, See thou tell no man_ Although our Lord was now followed by a great multitude of people, yet it seems not many of them were witnesses of this miracle, Jesus, probably, taking the person...
TELL NO MAN; either tell no man till thou hast shown thyself to the priest, that his judgment of the cure may not be influenced by any report of the miracle; or do not noise abroad the matter, a comma...
AND JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, SEE THOU TELL NO MAN, BUT GO THY WAY, SHOW THYSELF TO THE PRIEST, AND OFFER THE GIFT THAT MOSES COMMANDED, FOR A TESTIMONY UNTO THEM. Jesus was touched with compassion, Mark...
The miracle:...
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...
Some think that our Saviour only commanded him silence until he had showed himself unto the priest, and he, according to the law, LEVITICUS 13:1, should have pronounced him clean, lest their envy upon...
Cyprian Epistle LIV And when he had cleansed the leprous man, he said, "Go, show thyself to the priest."[18] Cyprian Epistle LXIV For when He had cleansed the leper, He said to him, "Go, show thyse...
Matthew 8:4 And G2532 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) him G846 See G3708 (G5720) tell G2036 ...
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 Jesus says to him, “See you tell no man; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.” But one more thing was required before the man cou...
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 8:4. SEE THOU TELL NO MAN _i.e_., do not stop to blaze it abroad, but GO THY WAY, go directly AND SHOW THYSELF TO THE PRIEST. The telling was forbidden until this duty was fulfilled. It is sai...
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. 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...
_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 8:4 SHOW YOURSELF TO THE PRIEST. Jesus instructs the man to do what the law required for lepers to return to society. SAY NOTHING TO ANYONE. Jesus does not want to draw crowds...
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 5:7; 2 Kings 5:8; Isaiah 42:21; John 10:37; John 10:38;...
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...
See thou tell no man — Perhaps our Lord only meant here, Not till thou hast showed thyself to the priest — who was appointed to inquire into the case of leprosy. But many others he commanded, absolute...