Matthew 8:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. ”

Matthew 8:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There came a leper - No disease with which the human family has been afflicted has been more dreadful than that which is often mentioned in the Bible “as the leprosy.” It first exhibits itself on...
Matthew 8:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(1) And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. (1) Christ in healing the leprous with the touch of his hand, shows that he abhors no si...
Matthew 8:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Healing of a Leper ( Mark 1:40-45 *, Luke 5:12-16 ). Mt. omits the healing of the demoniac ( Mark 1:23-28 ), and gives this incident perhaps in illustration of Christ's attitude to the Law. L...
Matthew 8:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos (App-6), for emphasis. leper. See note on Exodus 4:6 . worshipped . did homage. See App-137. The variations in Mark 1 , and Luke 5 , are due to the fac...
Matthew 8:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. Approaching, worshipped What is the meaning of the verb προσκυνεῖν, which is rendered in the Latin version, adorare, to adore or worship, may be easily learned from this passage...
Matthew 8:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And, behold, there came a leper - The leprosy λεπρα, from λεπις, a scale, was an inveterate c...
Matthew 8:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And, behold, there came a leper— It has been generally thought, that this is the leper whose cure is recorded, Mark 1:40 . Luke 5:12 and consequently that the sermon in Luke is not the same with...
Matthew 8:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And, behold, there came a leper - "a man full of leprosy," says Luke 5:12 . Much has...
Matthew 8:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew 8:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A leper. — The discussion of leprosy, as to its nature, symptoms, and causes, would be at once long and difficult. The word, which is Greek and not Hebrew in its origin, has probably been used with...
Matthew 8:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1-34 - Matthew 9:1-35 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23 , we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preach...
Matthew 8:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Matthew 8:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 powe...
Matthew 8:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 marria...
Matthew 8:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE SIGNIFICANT UNIT ‘And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.’ Matthew 8:2 I. Alone with the Saviour .—Out of the great mul...
Matthew 8:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And behold there came a leper ,.... As soon as he came down from the mountain, and whilst he was in the way; though Luke says, Luke 5:12 "when he was in a certain city"; in one of the cities of Ga...
Matthew 8:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Ver. 2. And, behold, there came a leper ] This leprosy was most rife in our Saviour's tim...
Matthew 8:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 compa...
Matthew 8:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Leper Healed. 1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 2 And, behold, there came a leper and...
Matthew 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 1,2. We heard of Christ's going up into the mountain, Matthew 6:1 ; and of great multitudes that followed him from Decapolis, and from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from beyond Jordan: wheth...
Matthew 8:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Reveals Himself As The Coming One By His Acts of Power and Proclamation Of The Good News (8:1-9). In Matthew 11:4-5 Jesus sends to a doubting John in prison these words, ‘Tell John the thi...
Matthew 8:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 prec...
Matthew 8:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

behold, there came a leper The King, having in Chapters 5-7. declared the principles of the kingdom, makes proof, in Chapters 8, 9, of His power to banish from the earth the consequences of si...
Matthew 8:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 8:1-4 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 virt...
Matthew 8:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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; h...
Matthew 8:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, the...
Matthew 8:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 ca...
Matthew 8:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 8:1-40 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...
Matthew 8:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jesus at once performed a miracle:
Matthew 8:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 14:25 ; 2 Chronicles 26:19-21 ; 2 Kings 15:5 ; 2 Kings 5:1 ; 2 Kings 5:27 ; 2 Kings 7:3 ; 2 Kings 7:4 ; 2 Samuel 3:39 ; Deuteronomy 24:8 ; Deuteronomy 24:9 ; John 9:38 ; Lev...
Matthew 8:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Miracle-Working Christ Matthew 8:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship...
Matthew 8:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A leper came — Leprosies in those countries were seldom curable by natural means, any more than palsies or lunacy. Probably this leper, though he might not mix with the people, had heard our Lord a...

Matthew 8:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 8:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 8:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 8:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

Matthew 8:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 8:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 8:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 8:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 8:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 8:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 8:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes