Luke 5:12

A leper humbly appeals to Jesus' willingness and power to cleanse him. He approaches with reverence and faith in Christ's ability.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
• Matt 8:2–4Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
• Luke 17:16He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
• Luke 17:12–13As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
• Mark 1:40–45A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
• Matt 9:28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Matt 8:8–9The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
• Ps 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
• Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Gen 18:14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
• Mark 9:22–24Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”
• Exod 4:6Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
• Matt 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Deut 24:8Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
• Num 12:10–12The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
• 1 Kgs 18:39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
• Lev 9:24Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Josh 5:14He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
• 1 Chr 21:16David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
• 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
• 2 Chr 26:19–20Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.
• Mark 5:23and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”
• Lev 13:1–14Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
• 2 Kgs 7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
• 2 Kgs 5:27Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

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