Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 8:2
There came a leper. Compare Mark 1:40-45 Lu 5:12-15. Leprosy was
a dreadful and hopeless disease. It begins as a skin disease, defies
medical skill, and is a kind of living death. Dr. Schaff says:
``Near the Jaffa gate of Jerusalem I saw, in 1877, these
miserable creatures with withered limbs imploring aid, and
visited a hospital of incurable lepers.'
There are various forms of the disease, but white leprosy seemed most
common among the Hebrews. With it the sufferer became white from head
to foot. The leper, by the law of Moses, was regarded unclean, was
separated from the people, was regarded as death, and the disease was a
type of sin. See Leviticus 13:1-12 2Ki 5:27 Nu 5:2.
Lord. An expression of faith, as well as the words that follow.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 8:2
Mark 1:40
Luke 5:12-16
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