Matthew 8 study – Matthew describes multiple miracles Jesus performed in this c…

Matthew 8 study 🌿
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Matthew describes multiple miracles Jesus performed in this chapter. The miracles Jesus had previously performed had drawn a large crowd that was following him from place to place.
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The first healing of this chapter, a man with leprosy, approached him. “Right away a man with leprosy came up and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then Jesus told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭8:2-4‬ Some notes from @enduringwordcommentary on leprosy: “For all these reasons the condition of leprosy is a model of sin and its effects. It is a contagious, debilitating disease that corrupts its victim and makes him essentially dead while alive; and it follows that almost universally, society and religious people scorned lepers,” and “Rabbis especially despised lepers and saw them as people under the special judgment of God, deserving no pity or mercy.” While this is heartbreaking, it gives perspective into the man’s faith. He had likely been an outcast from society as long as he had been diagnosed. Spurgeon uses this scenario to make a point about the lukewarm individuals who followed Christ, mostly due to the miracles he performed: “Those who called Jesus, ‘Lord’ and do not worship him are more diseased than the leper was.” The leper was cleansed.
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