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 14:2–32“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,
• Luke 5:14He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
• Luke 17:14When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.
• Mark 7:36He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
• Lev 13:2–46“When a man shall have a rising in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:
• Mark 6:11Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
• Matt 9:30Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”
• Matt 12:16–19and commanded them that they should not make him known:
• John 10:37–38If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
• Mark 1:43–44He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
• Matt 5:17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Isa 42:21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
• Matt 17:9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”
• Matt 10:18Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
• Matt 6:1“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
• Mark 5:43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
• 2 Kgs 5:7–8When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
• Matt 16:20Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
• Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
• Mark 8:30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
• John 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
• John 5:41I don’t receive glory from men.
• Luke 21:13It will turn out as a testimony for you.
• John 8:50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
• Mark 13:9But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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