Mateo 8:3

Filipino Cebuano Bible

3 Ug mituyhad si Jesus sa kamot, ug siya gitapin-an niya nga nag-ingon, "Buot ako; magmahinlo ka." Ug dihadiha nahinloan siya sa iyang sanla.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put: 2 Kings 5:11

I will: Genesis 1:3, Psalms 33:9, Mark 1:41, Mark 4:39, Mark 5:41, Mark 7:34, Mark 9:25, Luke 5:13, Luke 7:14, John 5:21, John 11:43, John 15:24

immediately: Matthew 11:4, Matthew 11:5, 2 Kings 5:14, Luke 17:14, Luke 17:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:7 - it was turned 2 Kings 5:3 - he would Matthew 8:8 - but Matthew 8:15 - touched Mark 5:23 - lay thy hands Mark 8:22 - to touch Luke 8:44 - immediately Luke 18:42 - Receive Acts 9:34 - Jesus Christ

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,.... This is a wonderful instance both of the grace, and goodness of Christ, in touching this loathsome creature; and of his unspotted purity and holiness, which could not be defiled by it; and of his mighty power in healing by a touch, and with a word of his mouth,

saying, I will, be thou clean: in which he expresses at once his willingness, "I will", of which the leper before was not certain; and his power by a word of command, "be thou clean"; and in which also is shown the readiness of Christ to do it: he did not stand parleying with the man, or making any further trial of his faith, or objecting to him his uncleanness; but at once stretches out his hand, touches his filthy flesh, and commands off the disorder. A great encouragement this, for poor sensible sinners to betake themselves to Christ, under a sense of their guilt and filth; who readily receives such, in no wise casts them out, but gives immediate discoveries of his power and grace unto them:

And immediately his leprosy was cleansed, or he was cleansed from it; he was not only pronounced clean, but was made so; he was thoroughly healed of the disease of leprosy. The Jews, themselves acknowledge this fact; for so they tell us in their wicked and blasphemous book e, that Jesus should say,

"bring me a leper, and I will heal him; and they brought him a leper, and he healed him also by Shemhamphorash,''

i.e. by the ineffable name Jehovah. Though they greatly misrepresent the matter; for this man was not brought by others, at the request of Christ, but came of his own accord; nor was he healed by the use of any name, as if it was done by a sort of magic, but by a touch of his hand, and the word of his mouth. Whether this was the same man with Simon the leper, Matthew 26:6 as some have thought, is not certain.

e Toldos Jesu, p. 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Jesus ...touched him - It was an offence to the Jews to “touch” a leprous person, and was regarded as making him who did it ceremonially impure, Leviticus 13:3. The act of putting forth his hand and “touching” him, therefore, expressed the intention of Jesus to cure him, and was a pledge that he “was,” in fact, already cured.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 8:3. Jesus put forth his hand - I will; be thou clean. — The most sovereign authority is assumed in this speech of our blessed Lord-I WILL: there is here no supplication of any power superior to his own; and the event proved to the fullest conviction, and by the clearest demonstration, that his authority was absolute, and his power unlimited. Be thou cleansed, καθαρισθητι; a single word is enough.

And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. — What an astonishing sight! A man whose whole body was covered over with the most loathsome disease, cleansed from it in a moment of time! Was it possible for any soul to resist the evidence of this fact? This action of Christ is a representation of that invisible hand which makes itself felt by the most insensible heart; of that internal word which makes itself heard by the most deaf; and of that supreme will which works every thing according to its own counsel.