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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they had brought the ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him, and it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: That is a characteristic touch of Luke, who, as a physician, with a glance of his eye, took in the condition of the man, not as merely a leper, but as one “full of leprosy.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city,.... Or near it, hard by it, very probably Capernaum; Matthew 8:1 Behold a man full of leprosy; a disease to which the Jews were very incident, and concerning which, many laws and rules are given, in Leviticus 13:1. The symptoms of the ancient "lepra", as laid down by Galen, Aretaeus, Pontanus,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and brought him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And he put forth his hand, and touched him, — The perfectly pure One touched the leprous man without himself becoming contaminated. In any other house, the man who touched a leper would have been defiled; but, when Christ comes into contact...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. There was not much faith there, but faith even as a grain of mustard seed will serve; and therefore Christ did not refuse the poor leper’s plea.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: As far gone with leprosy as he could be; thoroughly tainted, and eaten up with that loathsome disease. Luk_5:12. Who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. He felt that the difficulty lay in the will of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: What a contrast there was between these two persons,— the Lord Jesus full of purity,— and this man full of impurity,— full of leprosy! He could not be more than full; he had as much leprosy as a man could contain. Luk_5:12. Who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he put forth his hand and touched him,.... Having compassion on him, and commiserating his sad case: saying, I will, be thou clean; and immediately the leprosy departed from him; [See comments on Matthew 8:3].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. — Ask him to touch thee also, poor leprous soul; thou who art full of sin, thou who art deeply conscious that the deadly disease of sin is upon thee incurably. Ask him but to touch thee, for the touch of his finger shall make thee clean in a moment. Christ’s cures are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, This was a wonderful instance of condescending love on the part of the Lord Jesus; and touching the leper did not defile him. On the contrary, Christ removed the defilement from the leper: “He touched him,” Luk_5:13. Saying, I will: be thou clean. It was the will of Christ that wrought the miracle, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. This is just what Christ can do also in the spiritual realm. If a man be full of sin, let him but fall down on his face before Jesus, and say, “Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean,” and the Lord will put out his hand,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he charged him to tell no man,.... Of his cure, and by whom he received it; but go show thyself to the priest. The Syriac and Persic versions read, "to the priests: and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses has commanded, for a testimony unto them"; [See comments on Matthew 8:4].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: Some fires burn the more fiercely for being damped, and such was the fame of Christ; it was not to be kept under. The more he bade men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. Our blessed Master did not court fame; he did not wish to make himself notorious, the crowds that flocked around him were inconvenient to him, so he did not wish to have them increased....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. As long as the ceremonial law was in force, Christ very diligently obeyed it, and bade others do the same. That law is now abolished, and the Jewish priesthood has also ceased to be. But...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him,.... For the more he charged the man to keep silence, the more he blazed it abroad, being elated with the cure he received, and filled with gratitude to his benefactor; Mr 1:45. And great multitudes came together to hear: him, or from him, as the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Two words that I long to see linked together in this house: “to hear, and to be healed by him.” You come to hear; can you not also come “to be healed by him of your infirmities”?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: Fame is like fire. If you heap anything on it to prevent it from spreading, it often acts as fuel to the flame; so, the very effort to hide the light of Christ’s power, made it spread all the more widely. Luk_5:15. And great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. There was a double attraction about the Lord Jesus, —his sweet, instructive speech, and his gracious, healing hand. There is a somewhat similar attraction still in every true gospel ministry, not the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness,.... Into a desert place, that he might have rest from the fatigues of preaching and healing diseases; and being alone, and free from company, might have an opportunity for private prayer to God, for so it lows: and prayed; this is to be understood of Christ, as man: as God, he is the object of prayer,...