For a testimony unto them (εις μαρτυριον αυτοις). Without the formal testimony of the priests the people would not receive the lep…

And there came a leper, etc. (Matthew 8:1). See also the commentary on Matthew 8:1.

Kneeling down to him. He k…

That was all he was to do: to go and show himself to the priest, so that it might be officially known and certified that he was clean, and he was n…

The Venerable Bede: After the serpent-tongue of the devils was silenced and the woman who was first deceived was cured of a fev…

“Sent him away” is from a word often used of driving out demons, and “with a strong warning” originally meant “to snort like a horse.” In other wor…

Matthew 8:4; Mark 1:44. For a testimony to them: some consider testimony here to mean a law or stat…

And says to him, see you say nothing to any man By the way, till he came to the priest;

but go your wa…

We have here Christ's cleansing of a leper. It teaches us to apply to the Saviour with great humility, and with full submi ion to his will, saying,…