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Matthew 8:2

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

KJV

καὶ ἰδοὺ λεπρὸς προσελθὼν προσεκύνει αὐτῷ λέγων, κύριε, ἐὰν θέλῃς δύνασαί με καθαρίσαι.

Greek NT

et ecce leprosus veniens, adorabat eum, dicens : Domine, si vis, potes me mundare.

Vulgate

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

ASV

And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λεπρός
lepros
adjective · 9×
προσέρχομαι
proserchomai
verb · 87×
προσκυνέω
proskuneo
verb · 59×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: προσελθὼν | WH/Treg/NIV: προσελθὼν | RP: ἐλθὼν
  • προσελθὼνSBLGNT
  • προσελθὼνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐλθὼνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§448Very often in the Gospels people address Jesus as "Lord". This title testifies to the respect and trust of those who approach him for help and healing.62 At the prompting of the Holy Spirit, "Lord" expresses the recognition of the divine mystery of Jesus.63 In the encounter with the risen Jesus, this title becomes adoration: "My Lord and my God!" It thus takes on a connotation …
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. But say in a word only, and my servant shall be healed. See this man also, how, like the leper, he has the right opinion touching Him. For neither did this one say, entreat, nor did he say, pray, and beseech, but command only. And then from fear lest out of modesty He refuse, he says, For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this man, go, a…
2. And not for this only does He call him Elias everywhere, but to signify His perfect agreement with the Old Testament, and that this advent too is according to prophecy. Wherefore also He adds again, He came, and they knew him not, but have done unto him all things whatsoever they listed. Matthew 17:12 What means, all things whatsoever they listed? They cast him into prison, …
1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 14:25 — And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
  • 2Chr 26:19 — Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from
  • 2Kgs 5:27 — The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
  • 2Kgs 15:5 — And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
  • Acts 10:25 — And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
  • Acts 10:25 — And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
  • John 9:38 — And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
  • Josh 5:14 — And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
  • Lev 13:44 — He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
  • Luke 4:27 — And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
  • Luke 5:12 — 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.
  • Luke 5:12 — 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.
  • Luke 17:12 — And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
  • Mark 1:40 — 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.
  • Mark 1:40 — 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.
  • Mark 5:6 — But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
  • Mark 9:22 — And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
  • Matt 9:18 — While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
  • Matt 9:18 — While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
  • Matt 9:28 — And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
  • Matt 9:28 — And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
  • Matt 13:58 — And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
  • Matt 14:33 — Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
  • Matt 15:25 — Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
  • Matt 18:26 — The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
  • Matt 18:26 — The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
  • Matt 20:20 — Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
  • Matt 20:20 — Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
  • Matt 26:6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  • Matt 28:17 — And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
  • Num 5:2 — Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
  • Num 12:10 — And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.