Matthew 8:2

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ, ἰδού, λεπρὸς ἐλθὼν προσεκύνει αὐτῷ, λέγων, Κύριε, ἐὰν θέλῃς, δύνασαί με καθαρίσαι.

Transliteration

And, idou, lepros elthōn prosekunei to-him, legōn, Kurie, if thelēs, dunasai me katharisai.

Grammar Details

• Καὶ: conjunction - and
• *idou*: aorist middle imperative, 2nd person singular - behold/look
• *lepros*: nominative masculine singular noun - leper
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having come
• *prosekunei*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was worshipping/bowing down
• αὐτῷ: dative masculine singular pronoun - to him
• *legōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - saying
• *Kurie*: vocative masculine singular - Lord/Master/Sir
• ἐὰν: conditional particle - if
• *thelēs*: present active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might will/wish
• *dunasai*: present middle indicative, 2nd person singular - you are able
• με: accusative singular pronoun - me
• *katharisai*: aorist active infinitive - to cleanse/purify

Word Meanings

• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *lepros*: leper/one with skin disease
• *prosekunei*: was worshipping/was bowing down/was paying homage
• *Kurie*: Lord/Master/Sir
• *thelēs*: you will/wish/desire
• *dunasai*: you are able/you can/you have power
• *katharisai*: to cleanse/purify/make clean

Referenced Verses

• Matt 18:26 : 26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
• Matt 15:25 : 25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
• Rev 22:8-9 : 8 Now 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. 9 He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
• 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!"
• Lev 13:44-46 : 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. 45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.
• 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.
• Luke 5:12-14 : 12 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." 13 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him. 14 He 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 17:12-19 : 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!" 14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. 15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. 16 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. 17 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?" 19 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you."
• John 9:38 : 38 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
• Matt 9:28-29 : 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." 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you."
• Deut 24:8-9 : 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. 9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
• 2 Kgs 7:3-4 : 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? 4 If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."
• 2 Kgs 15:5 : 5 Yahweh 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.
• 2 Chr 26:19-21 : 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. 21 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
• Matt 2:11 : 11 They 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 4:9 : 9 He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."
• Matt 9:18 : 18 While 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."
• 2 Sam 3:39 : 39 I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."
• 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.
• Matt 10:8 : 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
• Matt 13:58 : 58 He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
• Matt 14:33 : 33 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!"
• Matt 20:20 : 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
• Matt 26:6 : 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Matt 28:9 : 9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
• Matt 28:17 : 17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.
• Acts 10:25 : 25 When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
• 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 And 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.
• Rev 19:10 : 10 I 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."
• Mark 5:6-7 : 6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
• Num 5:2-3 : 2 "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. 3 Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
• Num 12:10 : 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.
• Luke 4:27 : 27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."