Matthew 8:1-4 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
2And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
3And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Continuing on the theme of Christ as the perfect man; I realize that His Divinity runs throughout His earthly ministry becoming evident once He appeared after the temptation in the wilderness. This is where we begin chapter 8. I intend to continue with the rest of Matthew rather than piecemealing other Gospel passages for exact chronology. It is more of a Bible study but I will try to focus on the ways of Christ as I did before in an earlier post regarding the extensive challenges He met in a given day.
As usual Jesus had no time to recuperate after His time in solace of great trial before once again He had the crowds following Him around. We can assume that with His foreknowledge and prayers He was prepared in several ways. The first involved His overall long term plan to reach certain cities in the limits of His time to minister on earth; knowing that He only had a few years.
The specific cities to target are seen in later chapters to come. Overall of course He knew He would have to go to Jerusalem to die for the sins of men including His own Apostles. Second; He had plans for a given day; which as we will see at the end of the chapter would be to cast demons out of 2 men on the other side of the lake. No doubt He was "prayed up" for this. There were individual things that occurred in His travels such as this leper mentioned in verses 2-4.
This verse repeats what we see in other passages in verse 4 to NOT broadcast this miracle but to go to the Priest for confirmation.
2And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
3And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Continuing on the theme of Christ as the perfect man; I realize that His Divinity runs throughout His earthly ministry becoming evident once He appeared after the temptation in the wilderness. This is where we begin chapter 8. I intend to continue with the rest of Matthew rather than piecemealing other Gospel passages for exact chronology. It is more of a Bible study but I will try to focus on the ways of Christ as I did before in an earlier post regarding the extensive challenges He met in a given day.
As usual Jesus had no time to recuperate after His time in solace of great trial before once again He had the crowds following Him around. We can assume that with His foreknowledge and prayers He was prepared in several ways. The first involved His overall long term plan to reach certain cities in the limits of His time to minister on earth; knowing that He only had a few years.
The specific cities to target are seen in later chapters to come. Overall of course He knew He would have to go to Jerusalem to die for the sins of men including His own Apostles. Second; He had plans for a given day; which as we will see at the end of the chapter would be to cast demons out of 2 men on the other side of the lake. No doubt He was "prayed up" for this. There were individual things that occurred in His travels such as this leper mentioned in verses 2-4.
This verse repeats what we see in other passages in verse 4 to NOT broadcast this miracle but to go to the Priest for confirmation.
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