Matthew 8:2

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 8:1-10

Rewards of Faith Matthew 8:1-10 The Lord can touch thy heart, leprous with impurity, and make its stain depart, so that, as in the case of Naaman, its foulness shall become like “unto the flesh of a little child.” See 2 Kings 5:14 . The psalmist cried, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean,” alluding to the rite for the cleansing of the leper. Compare Psalms 51:7 ; Leviticus 14:4 , etc . But one touch of Christ’s hand is enough, for He is the great High Priest. He also can heal the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power; leprosy, palsy, fever, all fly before Him, and mark the cosmopolitanism of His giving-a leper, a Roman, a woman, all the despised in the Jewish mind. In that wonderful evening, when the crowds gathered, and the King took their infirmities and bore their diseases, what a radiant revelation He... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 8:1-17

The Miracle-Working Christ Matthew 8:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God, and stand for visions of the things to come. (1) We read in Deuteronomy these words: "And Moses went up * * to the top of Pisgah, * * and the Lord shewed him all the land." It was above the miasma of the swamp and the valley that Moses ascended. What a wonderful view was his! From Nebo's... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:2

THE SIGNIFICANT UNIT‘And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.’ Matthew 8:2 I. Alone with the Saviour.—Out of the great multitude there came a leper. Here we have a broad plural—the great multitude, and the significant unit—a leper from out of the midst. Out of the multitude—they always make room for him. There is always room for the leper. He was avoided by everybody, that is the natural tendency; there is a solitariness about... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-9

Jesus Reveals Himself As The Coming One By His Acts of Power and Proclamation Of The Good News (8:1-9). In Matthew 11:4-5 Jesus sends to a doubting John in prison these words, ‘Tell John the things which you hear and see, the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf (kowphos) hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have the Good News preached to them.’ By these words He answers the question, ‘Are You the Coming One?’ (Matthew 11:3). It cannot be... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:2

‘And behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean”.’ ‘Behold.’ This is probably to be seen as opening the whole series of incidents. Matthew is saying, ‘look now at the kinds of things that He did’. He wants to bring out that what now happens is significant (compare Matthew 1:20). But it also introduces the main character in this story (apart of course from Jesus). Jesus is approached by a skin-diseased man (not necessarily Hansen’s... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:2-4

The Healing of The Leper (8:2-4). Matthew abbreviates this story of the healing of the ‘Leper’, bringing out only the essential detail (compare Mark 1:40-45). For it is that essential detail that he wants to get over. And we will soon learn that Jesus sees the healing of lepers as part of the Messianic ministry and the ministry of the Kingly Rule of Heaven (Matthew 10:7-8; Matthew 11:5). It is these things that make quite clear that ‘at hand’ means ‘about to break in on all who will hear His... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-4

Matthew 8:1-Numbers : . The Healing of a Leper ( Mark 1:40-Romans : *, Luke 5:12-Nehemiah :).— Mt. omits the healing of the demoniac ( Mark 1:23-Hosea :), and gives this incident perhaps in illustration of Christ’ s attitude to the Law. Love is greater than Law, therefore Jesus touches the polluted man; yet the Law should be observed, and the man must go to the priest and witness that Jesus was not hostile to it. Apart from the connecting link in Matthew 8:1, Mt. abbreviates. Note especially... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 8:1-2

We heard of Christ’s going up into the mountain, Matthew 6:1; and of great multitudes that followed him from Decapolis, and from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from beyond Jordan: whether the same multitude, or others, followed him upon his coming down, is not said. But behold, ( saith the evangelist), there came a leper: both Mark and Luke have the same story, or one very like to it, Mark 1:40; Luke 5:12. Of the plague, or leprosy, we read much in the books of Moses. It was a white scab in the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 8:2. And behold, etc.—The time of this miracle seems too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose Gospels no such precise note of time is given (Brown). Leper.—Confining ourselves to the Biblical form of the disease, we note: 1. Its probable origin in the squalor and wretchedness of the Egyptian bondage. It was the “botch, or plague of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 28:27). In the Egyptian legends of the Exodus, indeed, the... read more

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 8:1-10

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 8:1-17

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:2-4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 8:1-2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

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