Matthew 8:2

A leper approached, worshiped Jesus, and trusted in his power and willingness to heal. His humble faith models how to come to Christ.

Cross-references · 34

• Mark 1:40–45Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
• Luke 17:12–19As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance
• Matt 15:25The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
• Matt 18:26Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’
• Lev 13:44–46the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.
• Luke 5:12–14While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
• Acts 10:25As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
• Matt 28:17When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.
• 1 Cor 14:25and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”
• John 9:38“Lord, I believe,” he said. And he worshiped Jesus.
• Mark 9:22–24“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
• Num 5:2–3“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
• Mark 5:6–7When the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees before Him.
• Matt 20:20Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him.
• Matt 9:28–29After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.
• 2 Chr 26:19–21Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
• Matt 14:33Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
• 2 Kgs 15:5And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
• Luke 4:27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
• 2 Kgs 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
• Matt 13:58And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
• Matt 9:18While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”
• Matt 26:6While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,
• Num 12:10As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
• 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
• 2 Sam 3:39And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
• Matt 10:8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
• Matt 2:11On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
• Matt 28:9Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came to Him, grasped His feet, and worshiped Him.
• Rev 19:10So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
• Rev 22:8–9And I am John, who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
• Deut 24:8–9In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
• Matt 4:9“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

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