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 1:40–45A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
• Luke 17:12–19As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
• Matt 15:25But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
• Matt 18:26The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’
• Lev 13:44–46he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
• Luke 5:12–14While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
• Acts 10:25When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
• Matt 28:17When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.
• 1 Cor 14:25And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
• John 9:38He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
• 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.”
• Num 5:2–3“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
• Mark 5:6–7When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
• Matt 20:20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
• Matt 9:28–29When 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.”
• 2 Chr 26:19–21Then 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.
• Matt 14:33Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”
• 2 Kgs 15:5Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
• Luke 4:27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
• 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.
• Matt 13:58He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
• Matt 9:18While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
• Matt 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Num 12:10The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
• 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 Sam 3:39I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
• Matt 10:8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
• Matt 2:11They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
• Matt 28:9As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
• Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
• Rev 22:8–9Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
• Deut 24:8–9Be 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.
• Matt 4:9He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”

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