Luke 5:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 5:12-16

Here is, I. The cleansing of a leper, Luke 5:12-14. This narrative we had both in Matthew and Mark. It is here said to have been in a certain city (Luke 5:12); it was in Capernaum, but the evangelist would not name it, perhaps because it was a reflection upon the government of the city that a leper was suffered to be in it. This man is said to be full of leprosy; he had that distemper in a high degree, which the more fitly represents our natural pollution by sin; we are full of that leprosy,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 5:12-15

5:12-15 While Jesus was in one of the towns--look you--a man who was a severe case of leprosy saw him. He fell before him and besought him, "Lord, if you are willing to do so you are able to cleanse me." Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. "I am willing," he said. "Be cleansed." Immediately the leprosy left him. Jesus enjoined him to tell no one. "But," he said, "go and show yourself to the priest, and bring the offering for cleansing, as Moses's law laid it down, to prove to them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:13

And he put forth his hand and touched him ,.... Having compassion on him, and commiserating his sad case: saying, I will, be thou clean; and immediately the leprosy departed from him ; See Gill on Matthew 8:3 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:1-39

The association of Jesus and these chosen men seems to have commenced as follows: Simon (Peter) and his brother Andrew (sons of Jona), John and James (the sons of Zebedee and Salome), belonged to fisher families dwelling on the banks of the Lake of Gennesaret. They seemed to have been fast friends, at times even partners in their occupation. Sharers with many others of the youth of Israel of their time, in a passionate hope that the hour of the long-promised deliverance from the yoke of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:12-13

The cleansed leper. Three points suggest themselves to our thoughts. I. THE WAVERING OF A STRONG HUMAN HOPE . Outside the outer circumference of that congregation was a man to whom pity would have drawn us, but from whom an instinctive repugnance would have repelled us. He was one in whom were not only signs and spots of that dire plague of leprosy, but in whom it was seen in its most virulent form—he was "full of leprosy." Suffering in body, and afflicted far worse in mind... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:12-16

The leper is healed in a certain city. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:12-26

The power present to heal. In the setting forth of facts, there is another principle of guidance than chronology. We may group them around some thoughts with the view of illustrating the meaning and scope of the thought. On this principle let us regard the events related from the twelfth verse to the twenty-sixth. What they evidence is the power of the Lord that was working in Jesus as a power of healing. Strange, blessed things we shall see to-day. I. THE WORK OF SALVATION AS... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:12-26

The healing of the leper and the paralytic. We noticed how Jesus called the fishermen to be fishers of men, and how they nobly responded to his call, and forsook the fish and boats and friends that they might follow him. We have now before us two instructive miracles performed during his evangelistic work, and resulting in an extension of his influence. Between them there is interposed a significant remark about our Lord's private prayer, so that the order of our thought is miracle,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:13

And he put forth his hand, mad touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him . St. Mark adds here, "being touched with compassion." The Redeemer, at the sight of the man's awful wretchedness—wasting away, shunned by all men, dragging on a hopeless, aimless, weary life—in his Divine pity, with a sudden impulse tosses aside all considerations of ceremonial uncleanness or contagion, and lays his hand on the miserable sufferer from whom all shrank,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 5:12-16

See the notes at Matthew 8:2-4. read more

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