Mark 1:40

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܶܐܬ݂ܳܐ ܠܘܳܬ݂ܶܗ ܓ݁ܰܪܒ݁ܳܐ ܘܰܢܦ݂ܰܠ ܥܰܠ ܪܶܓ݂ܠܰܘܗ݈ܝ ܘܒ݂ܳܥܶܐ ܗ݈ܘܳܐ ܡܶܢܶܗ ܘܶܐܡܰܪ ܠܶܗ ܐܶܢ ܨܳܒ݂ܶܐ ܐܰܢ݈ܬ݁ ܡܶܫܟ݁ܰܚ ܐܰܢ݈ܬ݁ ܠܰܡܕ݂ܰܟ݁ܳܝܽܘܬ݂ܝ ܀

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Matthew 8:2-4, Luke 5:12-14

a leper: Leviticus 13:1 - Leviticus 14:57, Numbers 12:10-15, Deuteronomy 24:8, Deuteronomy 24:9, 2 Samuel 3:29, 2 Kings 5:5-27, 2 Kings 5:27, 2 Kings 7:3, 2 Kings 15:5, Matthew 11:5, Luke 17:12-19

kneeling: Mark 10:17, 2 Chronicles 6:13, Matthew 17:14, Luke 22:41, Acts 7:60, Ephesians 3:14

if thou: Mark 9:22, Mark 9:23, Genesis 18:14, 2 Kings 5:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:2 - He shall Mark 7:25 - at Acts 14:9 - he had Acts 21:5 - we kneeled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there came a leper to him,.... After he was come down from a certain mountain, in Galilee, where he had been preaching to the people, Matthew 8:1, and when be was in a certain city, Luke 5:12, either Capernaum, or some other city of Galilee. This man was full of leprosy, as Luke says, and very probably deemed incurable; of the nature and symptoms of the leprosy, Luke 5:12- :,

beseeching him; to cure him of his leprosy:

and kneeling down to him; in token of submission, respect, and reverence, and to worship him:

and saying unto him, if thou wilt thou canst make me clean;

Luke 5:12- :. Mark omits the word "Lord".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And there came a leper ... - See the notes at Matthew 8:1-4.

Kneeling down to him - He kneeled and inclined his face to the ground, in token of deep humiliation and earnest entreaty. Compare Luke 5:12.

If thou wilt - This was an acknowledgment of the almighty power of Jesus, and an appeal to his benevolence.

Make me clean - You (Jesus) can heal me of this loathsome and offensive disease, in the eye of the law justly regarded as “unclean,” and render me “legally” clean, and restore me to the privileges of the congregation.

And Jesus ...touched him - It was by the law considered as unclean to touch a leprous man. See Numbers 5:2. The fact that Jesus touched him was evidence that the requisite power had been already put forth to heal him; that Jesus regarded him as already clean.

I will - Here was a most manifest proof of his divine power. None but God can work a miracle; yet Jesus does it by his “own will” - by an exertion of his own power. Therefore, Jesus is divine.

See thou say nothing to any man - The law of Moses required that a man who was healed of the leprosy should be pronounced clean by the priest before he could be admitted again to the privileges of the congregation, Leviticus 14:0. Christ, though he had cleansed him, yet required him to be obedient to the law of the land - to go at once to the priest, and not to make delay by stopping to converse about his being healed. It was also possible that, if he did not go at once, evil-minded men would go before him and prejudice the priest, and prevent his declaring the healing to be thorough because it was done by Jesus. It was of further importance that “the priest” should pronounce it to be a genuine cure, that there might be no cavils among the Jews against its being a real miracle.

Offer for thy cleansing those things ... - Two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop; and after eight days, two he-lambs, without blemish, and one ewe-lamb, and fine flour, and oil, Leviticus 14:4, Leviticus 14:10.

For a testimony unto them - Not to the priest, but to the people, that they may have evidence that it is a real cure. The testimony of the priest on the subject would be decisive.

Mark 1:45

Began to publish it much - That is, he made known his own cure. He was so deeply affected with it, and so much rejoiced, that he followed the natural dictates of his own feelings rather than the command of the Saviour.

Jesus could no more enter openly into the city - The word “could,” here, does not refer to any natural inability, or to any physical obstacle in his way, but only denotes that there was difficulty, inconvenience, or impropriety in his doing it then; that he judged it best not then to enter into the city. The difficulty was, probably, that his being in the city drew such crowds of people as rendered it difficult to accommodate them, or so as to excite the opposition of civil rulers.

The city - The city or large town where the leper was cured. The same reason for not entering that city applied also to others, so that he remained in the deserts, where the multitudes could come to him without any difficulty or opposition.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 1:40. There came a leper — See the notes on Matthew 8:2, c. Should any be inclined to preach on this cleansing of the leper, Mark is the best evangelist to take the account from, because he is more circumstantial than either Matthew or Luke.

I. Consider this leper.

1. He heard of Jesus and his miracles.

2. He came to him for a cure, conscious of his disease.

3. He earnestly besought him to grant the mercy he needed.

4. He fell down on his knees, (with his face to the earth,

Luke 5:12,) thus showing his humbled state, and the distress

of his soul.

5. He appealed to his love - if thou wilt with a full conviction

of his ability - thou canst; in order to get healed.

II. Consider Jesus.

1. He is moved with tender compassion towards him: this is the

alone source of all human salvation.

2. He stretches forth his hand, showing thus his readiness to

relieve him.

3. He touches him; though this was prohibited by the law, and

rendered him who did it in any common case legally unclean.

4. He proves at once his infinite love and unlimited power, by

his word and by his act; I will - be thou cleansed; and

immediately his leprosy was removed.

But Matthew 8:2.