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Matthew 8:3

And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

KJV

καὶ ἐκτείνας τὴν χεῖρα ἥψατο αὐτοῦ λέγων, θέλω, καθαρίσθητι· καὶ εὐθέως ἐκαθερίσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα.

Greek NT

Et extendens Jesus manum, tetigit eum, dicens : Volo : mundare. Et confestim mundata est lepra ejus.

Vulgate

And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed.

ASV

And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εὐθέως
eutheos
adverb · 85×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λέπρα
lepra
noun · 4×
χείρ
cheir
noun · 175×
ἅπτομαι
aptomai
verb · 35×
ἐκτείνω
ekteino
verb · 16×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

notable
SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῦ | RP: + ὁ Ἰησοῦς
  • αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
  • αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ὁ Ἰησοῦς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

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

2. In this case indeed He discloses also another sign, and that no small one, of His own Godhead, and of His equality in honor with the Father. For whereas they said, To unbind sins pertains to God only, He not only unbinds sins, but also before this He makes another kind of display in a thing which pertained to God only; the publishing the secrets in the heart. For neither had…
1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…
1. Of the men of that time some clung to their error, others laid hold on the truth, while of these last, some having retained it for a little while again fell off from it. Alluding to these, Christ compared them to seeds not deeply sown, but having their roots upon the surface of the earth; and He said that they should quickly perish. And these the Evangelist has here pointed …
We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. But observe that energy and capacity for energy, and the product of energy, and the agent of energy, are all…
It is worthy of note that the flesh of the Lord is not said to have been deified and made equal to God and God in respect of any change or alteration, or transformation, or confusion of nature: as Gregory the Theologian says, Whereof the one deified, and the other was deified, and, to speak boldly, made equal to God: and that which anointed became man, and that which was anoint…

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 5:11 — But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover th
  • 2Kgs 5:14 — Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
  • Acts 9:34 — And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
  • Exod 4:7 — And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
  • Gen 1:3 — And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
  • John 5:21 — For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
  • John 11:43 — And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
  • John 15:24 — If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  • Luke 5:13 — And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
  • Luke 7:14 — And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
  • Luke 8:44 — Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
  • Luke 17:14 — And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
  • Luke 17:14 — And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
  • Luke 18:42 — And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.
  • Mark 1:41 — And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
  • Mark 4:39 — And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
  • Mark 5:41 — And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
  • Mark 7:34 — And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
  • Mark 8:22 — And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
  • Mark 9:25 — When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
  • Matt 8:8 — The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
  • Matt 8:15 — And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
  • Matt 11:4 — Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
  • Ps 33:9 — For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.