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Text -- Mark 1:40 (NET)

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Cleansing a Leper
1:40 Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Prayer | Miracles | Leprosy | LEPER; LEPROSY | Jesus, The Christ | JESUS CHRIST, 4C1 | Capernaum | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Mar 1:40 - -- Kneeling down to him ( kai gonupetōn ). Picturesque detail omitted by some MSS. Luk 5:12 has "fell on his face."

Kneeling down to him ( kai gonupetōn ).

Picturesque detail omitted by some MSS. Luk 5:12 has "fell on his face."

Wesley: Mar 1:40 - -- Mat 8:2; Luk 5:12.

Clarke: Mar 1:40 - -- There came a leper - See the notes on Mat 8:2, etc Should any be inclined to preach on this cleansing of the leper, Mark is the best evangelist to t...

There came a leper - See the notes on Mat 8:2, etc

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, Luk 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 see on Mat 8:2 (note).

TSK: Mar 1:40 - -- there : Mat 8:2-4; Luk 5:12-14 a leper : Lev. 13:1-14:57; Num 12:10-15; Deu 24:8, Deu 24:9; 2Sa 3:29; 2Kings 5:5-27; 2Ki 5:27, 2Ki 7:3, 2Ki 15:5; Mat ...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Mar 1:40-45 - -- And there came a leper ... - See the notes at Mat 8:1-4. Kneeling down to him - He kneeled and inclined his face to the ground, in token ...

And there came a leper ... - See the notes at Mat 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 Luk 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 Num 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, Lev. 14. 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, Lev 14:4, Lev 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.

Mar 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.

Poole: Mar 1:40-45 - -- Ver. 40-45. We before had this piece of history, in Matthew, See Poole on "Mat 8:2" See Poole on "Mat 8:3" See Poole on "Mat 8:4" , we shall als...

Ver. 40-45. We before had this piece of history, in Matthew, See Poole on "Mat 8:2" See Poole on "Mat 8:3" See Poole on "Mat 8:4" , we shall also meet with it hereafter in Luk 5:14,15 . Our Lord being moved with compassion, or affected in his bowels, (as the word signifies), is often used as expressive of the cause of his acts of mercy: thus in curing the leper, he at once both showed himself the Son of man, one who could have compassion on our infirmities, and indeed could not but have such a commiseration toward mankind; and the Son of God, that he could in an instant, by a touch, or by the word of his power, command off a disease of so difficult cure. For his charging of him to say nothing to any man, we are not able to give a perfect account of it, whether it was to avoid a suspicion of ostentation, or to avoid a throng of company pressing upon him, or to avoid the odium which he knew the doing of these mighty works would bring him under with the scribes and Pharisees, until the time came for the fuller revelation of himself. Much less can we tell how to excuse the leper for doing contrary to this charge, which we find many others to have done who had the like charge, yet we read not of our Saviour’ s blaming them for it. Mark addeth, that his publication of it caused that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places; by which is to be understood only places less inhabited; some think, places near the shore, where by going into a ship (as he often did) he could more easily quit himself of the throng of people, for (as it followeth) they came to him from every quarter.

Gill: Mar 1:40 - -- 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, Mat 8:1, and...

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, Mat 8:1, and when be was in a certain city, Luk 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; see Gill on Luk 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; See Gill on Mat 8:2. Mark omits the word "Lord".

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mar 1:40 This is a third class condition. The report portrays the leper making no presumptions about whether Jesus will heal him or not.

Geneva Bible: Mar 1:40 ( 12 ) And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. ( 12 ) B...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Mar 1:1-45 - --1 The office of John the Baptist.9 Jesus is baptized;12 tempted;14 he preaches;16 calls Peter, Andrew, James, and John;23 heals one that had a devil;2...

Maclaren: Mar 1:40-42 - --A Parable In A Miracle And there came a leper to Him, beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying unto Him, If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me...

MHCC: Mar 1:40-45 - --We have here Christ's cleansing of a leper. It teaches us to apply to the Saviour with great humility, and with full submission to his will, saying, "...

Matthew Henry: Mar 1:40-45 - -- We have here the story of Christ's cleansing a leper, which we had before, Mat 8:2-4. It teaches us, 1. How to apply ourselves to Christ; come a...

Barclay: Mar 1:40-45 - --In the New Testament there is no disease regarded with more terror and pity than leprosy. When Jesus sent out the Twelve he commanded them, "Heal th...

Constable: Mar 1:14--3:7 - --II. The Servant's early Galilean ministry 1:14--3:6 Mark omitted Jesus' year of early Judean ministry (John 1:15...

Constable: Mar 1:35-45 - --C. Jesus' early ministry throughout Galilee 1:35-45 Jesus made several preaching tours throughout Galile...

Constable: Mar 1:40-45 - --2. The cleansing of a leprous Jew 1:40-45 (cf. Matt. 8:1-4; Luke 5:12-16) This pericope evidentl...

College: Mar 1:1-45 - --MARK 1 I. INTRODUCTION (1:1-15) Mark's Gospel begins with an introduction that orients the reader to the story to follow. The extent of the introduc...

McGarvey: Mar 1:40-45 - -- XXXIV. JESUS HEALS A LEPER AND CREATES MUCH EXCITEMENT. aMATT.VIII. 2-4; bMARK I. 40-45; cLUKE V. 12-16.    c12 And it came to pass, ...

Lapide: Mar 1:1-45 - -- COMMENTARY upon THE GOSPEL OF  S. MARK.

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Mark (Book Introduction) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK By Way of Introduction One of the clearest results of modern critical study of the Gospels is the early date of Mark...

JFB: Mark (Book Introduction) THAT the Second Gospel was written by Mark is universally agreed, though by what Mark, not so. The great majority of critics take the writer to be "Jo...

JFB: Mark (Outline) THE PREACHING AND BAPTISM OF JOHN. ( = Mat 3:1-12; Luke 3:1-18). (Mar 1:1-8) HEALING OF A DEMONIAC IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF CAPERNAUM AND THEREAFTER OF SI...

TSK: Mark 1 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Mar 1:1, The office of John the Baptist; Mar 1:9, Jesus is baptized; Mar 1:12, tempted; Mar 1:14, he preaches; Mar 1:16, calls Peter, And...

Poole: Mark 1 (Chapter Introduction) ARGUMENT That the author of this compendious history of the Gospel was none of the twelve apostles, is evident to any who will read over their name...

MHCC: Mark (Book Introduction) Mark was a sister's son to Barnabas, Col 4:10; and Act 12:12 shows that he was the son of Mary, a pious woman of Jerusalem, at whose house the apostle...

MHCC: Mark 1 (Chapter Introduction) (Mar 1:1-8) The office of John the Baptist. (Mar 1:9-13) The baptism and temptation of Christ. (Mar 1:14-22) Christ preaches and calls disciples. (...

Matthew Henry: Mark (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Gospel According to St. Mark We have heard the evidence given in by the first witness to the doctri...

Matthew Henry: Mark 1 (Chapter Introduction) Mark's narrative does not take rise so early as those of Matthew and Luke do, from the birth of our Saviour, but from John's baptism, from which he...

Barclay: Mark (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MARK The Synoptic Gospels The first three gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, are always known as the s...

Barclay: Mark 1 (Chapter Introduction) The Beginning Of The Story (Mar_1:1-4) The Herald Of The King (Mar_1:5-8) The Day Of Decision (Mar_1:9-11) The Testing Time (Mar_1:12-13) The Mes...

Constable: Mark (Book Introduction) Introduction Writer The writer did not identify himself as the writer anywhere in this...

Constable: Mark (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-13 A. The title of the book 1:1 B. Jesus' pr...

Constable: Mark Mark Bibliography Adams, J. McKee. Biblical Backgrounds. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1965. Alexa...

Haydock: Mark (Book Introduction) THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO ST. MARK. INTRODUCTION. St. Mark, who wrote this Gospel, is called by St. Augustine, the abridge...

Gill: Mark (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO MARK This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and su...

College: Mark (Book Introduction) FOREWORD No story is more important than the story of Jesus. I am confident that my comments do not do it justice. Even granting the limitations of a...

College: Mark (Outline) OUTLINE I. INTRODUCTION - Mark 1:1-15 A. The Beginning of the Gospel - 1:1-8 B. John Baptizes Jesus - 1:9-11 C. Temptation in the Wildernes...

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