He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
- BSB Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
- NKJV Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
- NASB And He reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy left him.
- NLT Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
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- Matt 9:29–30Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
- John 4:50–53Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
- Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- 2 Kgs 5:14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Ezek 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
- Gen 1:9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
- Ps 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Luke 4:39He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Luke 8:54–55But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”
- 2 Kgs 5:10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”
- Gen 1:3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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