HEALING OF A LEPER
Matthew 8:2-4, 4:25; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16
A Town in Galilee
And
behold it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, there came a leper, a man full of leprosy who seeing
Jesus fell on his face
and worshipped him, beseeching him and kneeling down to
him, besought him saying
to him,
“Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”
This would be a man in a desperate situation. Luke,
the physician, says he was “full” of leprosy. The Greek word used is πλήρης (pleres), meaning “filled up” or “covered in
every part”. He must have been hard to look at and certainly unable to hide his
condition. He probably had suffered a long time with it as well for it to
develop to the point it covered every part. Most likely he would not have lived
much longer in this advanced state.
To continue reading about this man and what happened, CLICK HERE.
Note: A while back -- quite a while back - I started a journey to do my own Harmony and Commentary on the Gospels. It is a slow process and I really would like to introduce others to what I have written there. This is a recent entry on that journey and clinking on CLICK HERE above will take you to my take on this passage.
It you would like to start at the beginning of my Commentary, then go to HERE.
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