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Luke 5:13
Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses a leper who has fallen facedown and begged for cleansing, positioned between the man's initial plea in Luke 5:12 and Jesus's subsequent instruction to visit the priest in Luke 5:14.
The words — The text records Jesus using ἐκτείνας (ekteinas) for "having stretched out" and θέλω (thelō) for "I am willing," followed by the command to be clean.
The thread — The verse aligns with Luke 5:12-14's narrative frame, echoes the touch-and-command pattern in Matthew 9:29, parallels the word-alone healing in John 4:50, and recalls the obedience-to-word restoration in 2 Kings 5:14.
Why it lands — The text states Jesus willingly touches the man and instantly removes his leprosy, requiring the reader to acknowledge that divine consent and physical contact directly precede the cleansing result.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Cross-references
- Matthew 9:29 Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
- John 4:50 “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.
- 2 Kings 5:14 So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
- Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Genesis 1:9 And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
- 2 Kings 5:10 Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
- Psalms 33:9 For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Luke 4:39 and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.