1:40
Leprosy as used in the Bible covered a range of skin diseases, and was not limited to our current medical definition of leprosy. Lepers were outcasts, largely because of the risk of infection spreading. The leper here comes and kneels before Jesus. The leper’s words “if you are willing” are not so much expressing a lack of faith, but are said out of respect. He did not presume that Jesus had to heal him.
1:41,42
NIV has “Jesus was indignant”, ESV has “moved with pity”. Whatever the case, Jesus was deeply moved, and he “reached out his hand and touched the man”. This was something that you did not do, for it would make you unclean. Jesus had compassion on the man, and told the man that He was “willing”. “Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed”.
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