Luke 5:12

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, while 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."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ ἐγένετο, ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων, καὶ ἰδού ἀνὴρ πλήρης λέπρας: καὶ ἰδὼν τὸν Ἰησοῦν πεσὼν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον, ἐδεήθη αὐτοῦ, λέγων, Κύριε, ἐὰν θέλῃς, δύνασαί με καθαρίσαι.

Transliteration

And egeneto, in the einai auton en mia tōn poleōn, and idou anēr plērēs lepras: and idōn ton Iēsoun pesōn epi prosōpon, edeēthē autou, legōn, Kyrie, if thelēs, dynasai me katharisai.

Grammar Details

• *egeneto*: aorist, 3rd singular, middle - it happened
• *einai*: present infinitive - to be
• *auton*: accusative, masculine, singular - him
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *mia*: dative, feminine, singular - one
• *tōn poleōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of the cities
• *idou*: interjection - behold/look
• *anēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - man
• *plērēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - full
• *lepras*: genitive, feminine, singular - of leprosy
• *idōn*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having seen
• *ton Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *pesōn*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having fallen
• *epi*: preposition + accusative - on/upon
• *prosōpon*: accusative, neuter, singular - face
• *edeēthē*: aorist, 3rd singular, passive - besought/begged
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - him
• *legōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *thelēs*: present subjunctive, 2nd singular, active - you might will/wish
• *dynasai*: present, 2nd singular, middle or passive - you are able
• *me*: accusative, 1st singular - me
• *katharisai*: aorist infinitive, active - to cleanse

Word Meanings

• *egeneto*: it happened/came to pass/occurred
• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *plērēs*: full/covered with/full of
• *lepras*: leprosy/skin disease
• *pesōn*: having fallen/prostrated
• *edeēthē*: besought/begged/entreated
• *Kyrie*: Lord/Master/Sir
• *thelēs*: you might will/wish/desire
• *dynasai*: you are able/can
• *katharisai*: to cleanse/purify/make clean

Referenced Verses

• Matt 8:2-4 : 2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." 3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
• Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
• Luke 17:12-13 : 12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. 13 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
• Luke 17:16 : 16 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
• Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Mark 1:40-45 : 40 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." 41 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." 42 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 43 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out, 44 and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." 45 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
• Mark 9:22-24 : 22 Often 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." 23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
• Ps 91:15 : 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
• 1 Chr 21:16 : 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
• Matt 8:8-9 : 8 The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
• Matt 9:28 : 28 When 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."
• Matt 26:6 : 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
• Exod 4:6 : 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
• Lev 9:24 : 24 There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 12:10-12 : 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
• Deut 24:8 : 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
• Josh 5:14 : 14 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
• 1 Kgs 18:39 : 39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"
• 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now 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 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
• 2 Kgs 7:3 : 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die?
• Lev 13:1-9 : 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 "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: 3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean. 4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. 5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. 6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. 8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. 9 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; 10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising, 11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean. 12 "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest; 13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. 14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
• 2 Chr 26:19-20 : 19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense. 20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
• Mark 5:23 : 23 and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."