Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 8:1-4
The cleansing of a leprous Jew 8:1-4 (cf. Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) read more
Matthew 8:2
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 8:1-17
1. Jesus’ ability to heal 8:1-17This first group of four miracle events apparently all happened on the same day (Matthew 8:16). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 8:1-34
A. Demonstrations of the King’s power 8:1-9:34Matthew described Jesus’ ministry as consisting of teaching, preaching, and healing in Matthew 4:23. Chapters 5-7 record what He taught His disciples: principles of the kingdom. We have the essence of His preaching ministry in Matthew 4:17. Now in Matthew 8:1 to Matthew 9:34 we see His healing ministry. He demonstrated authority over human beings, unseen spiritual powers, and the world of nature. Matthew showed that Jesus’ ability proves that He is... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 8:2-3
Matthew typically used the phrase kai idou ("and behold," not translated in the NIV) to mark the beginning of a new section, not to indicate the next event chronologically.The exact nature of biblical leprosy is unknown. Apparently it included what we call leprosy today, Hansen’s disease, but it involved other skin diseases too (cf. Leviticus 13-14). [Note: A Dictionary of New Testament Theology, s.v. "Leprosy," by R. K. Harrison, 2:363-66; Rebecca A. and E. Eugene Baillie, "Biblical Leprosy as... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-34
The Leper Cleansed. The Centurion’s Servant Healed. Healing of Peter’s Wife’s Mother and many others. Stilling of the Tempest. Healing of the Gadarene Demoniacs1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40; Luke 5:12). No natural explanation of this miracle is possible. Leprosy has always been, and is still, one of the most intractable diseases. Under the Mosiac Law lepers were regarded as unclean and excluded entirely from human society: see Leviticus 13, 14, and notes. Considered as a parable this... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:2
(2) A leper.—The discussion of leprosy, as to its nature, symptoms, and causes, would be at once long and difficult. The word, which is Greek and not Hebrew in its origin, has probably been used with varying extent of meaning, sometimes including elephantiasis, or even cancer. Even in its narrower meaning, as used by Hippocrates, leprosy was subdivided into three kinds: (1) the mealy, (2) the white, (3) the black, according to the appearance presented by the portions of diseased flesh.... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 8:1-34
The Healing of the Leper Matthew 8:3 These words, spoken to a leper, were the very last words that anyone, save He Who spake them, would have dreamed of saying. Most men, if they had spoken at all, would have bidden him keep his distance; some few might have flung to him a word or two of passing pity; one here and there might have bestowed an alms on him; but not one would even for a moment have thought of saying, 'Be thou clean'. It was left for Jesus to say to the poor wretch at His feet,... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34
Chapter 8The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1-34 - Matthew 9:1-35REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing all manner of diseases. Of the teaching and preaching we have had a signal illustration in what is called the Sermon on the Mount; now the other great branch of the work is set before us in a group of miracles, filling up almost the whole of the eighth and ninth chapters.The naturalness of the... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Matthew 8:1-34
6. The King Manifested by Signs of Divine Power. Chapters 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1-4 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5-13 .) 3. The Healing of Peter's Wife's Mother.(Matthew 8:14-15 .) 4. The Healing of All. (Matthew 8:16-17 .) 5. The Self-seeking Scribe and the Test of True Discipleship.(Matthew 8:18-22 .) 6. His Power over Nature. (Matthew 8:23-27 .) 7. His Power over the Demons. (Matthew 8:28-34 .) With the eighth chapter we... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:2
2. And, behold, there came a leper—"a man full of leprosy," says :-. Much has been written on this disease of leprosy, but certain points remain still doubtful. All that needs be said here is that it was a cutaneous disease, of a loathsome, diffusive, and, there is reason to believe, when thoroughly pronounced, incurable character; that though in its distinctive features it is still found in several countries—as Arabia, Egypt, and South Africa—it prevailed, in the form of what is called white... read more