13And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
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Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. …
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. …
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)Here is, I. The cleansing of a leper, Luke 5:12-14. This narrative we had both in Matthew and Mark. It is here said to have been in a certain city (Luke 5:12); it was in Capernaum, but the evangelist would not name it, perhaps because it was a reflection upon the government of the city that a leper was suffered to be in it . This man is said to be full of leprosy ; he had that distemper in a high…
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