Matthew 8:3 KJV
And Jesus put
forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed.
John Gill
writes, "This is a
wonderful instance both of the grace, and goodness of Christ, in touching this
loathsome creature; and of his unspotted purity and holiness, which could not
be defiled by it; and of his mighty power in healing by a touch, and with a
word of his mouth"
Grace
A man cast
away from the rest of the world, through no fault of his own. A disease he
would have much preferred to no have had left him, as Gill says, "a
loathsome creature".
Holiness
God is so
holy, they say, that He cannot be in the presence of sin. Indeed our sins
separated us from God; but not from Jesus. He could not be defiled even by this
terrible disease.
Power
So holy is
Christ that the disease fled. Rather than His holiness being infected with the
disease, the diseased was cleansed by the power of holiness.
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