Matthew 8:4

Jesus told the healed man to stay quiet but show himself to the priest and offer the prescribed sacrifice. He honors the Law and provides legal proof of the cleansing.

Cross-references · 25

• Lev 14:2–32This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
• Luke 5:14And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
• Luke 17:14And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
• Mark 7:36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
• Lev 13:2–46When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
• Mark 6:11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
• Matt 9:30And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
• Matt 12:16–19And charged them that they should not make him known:
• John 10:37–38If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
• Mark 1:43–44And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
• Matt 5:17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Isa 42:21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
• Matt 17:9And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
• Matt 10:18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
• Matt 6:1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
• Mark 5:43And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
• 2 Kgs 5:7–8And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
• Matt 16:20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
• Matt 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
• Mark 8:30And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
• John 7:18He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
• John 5:41I receive not honour from men.
• Luke 21:13And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
• John 8:50And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
• Mark 13:9But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

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