Healing a leper
The biblical narrative of the healing of a leper tells of Jesus' miraculous healing (actually: cleansing ) of a leper by the laying on of hands. The narrative can be found in the Gospel of Mark ( Mk 1.40–45 EU ), from which, according to the two-source theory, the versions in Matthew ( Mt 8,1–4 EU ) and Luke ( Lk 5,12–16 EU ) arose.
The wording - synoptic comparison
| # | Mk 1.40-45 LUT | Lk 5,12-16 LUT | Mt 8 : 1-4 LUT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And a leper came to him and asked him | And it came to pass, while he was in a city, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus | But as he came down from the mountain, a great crowd followed him. 2 And, behold, a leper came up and |
| knelt down and said to him: | He fell on his face and begged him, saying: | fell down before him and said: | |
| Lord, if you want, you can cleanse me. | Lord if you want you can cleanse me. | ||
| 2 | And he lamented and stretched out his hand, touched him and said to him: | And he reached out his hand and touched him and said: | And Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said: |
| I want to do it; be pure! | |||
| 3 | And immediately he was clear of his leprosy. | And immediately the leprosy left him. | And immediately the leprosy left him and he became clean. |
| 4th | And Jesus threatened him and immediately drove him away | - | - |
| 5 | and said to him, See that you tell no one; rather | And he told him not to tell anyone. | And Jesus said to him, See, tell no one, but rather |
| go and show yourself to the priest and offer what Moses commanded them as a testimony for your purification. | go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded as a testimony to them. | ||
Arrangements by Luke and Matthew
In contrast to the original version by Mark, the following arrangements can be found in Luke and Matthew:
- They leave out the "compassionate mercy" of Jesus (cf. Mk 1.41 EU )
- The whole verse Mk 1.43 EU is missing
Remarks
According to the legal situation at that time, lepers must live apart from the people, as it says in the 3rd book of Moses ( Lev 13:14 EU ):
“As long as the evil persists, it remains unclean; he is unclean. He should live separately, outside the camp he should stay. "
The Greek λεπρός (lepros) and the corresponding Hebrew term do not mean that the patient is affected by leprosy , but rather describes a whole group of skin anomalies, including vitiligo .
In the Matthew version, the miracle story is framed by Jesus' descent from the mountain after the Sermon on the Mount and by the sending of the healed to the priest. This descent from the mountain corresponds to the Mose Sinai typology due to its relation to Ex 34.29 EU .
Another story from Lukas
In chapter 17 of the Gospel of Luke there is the story of the healing of ten lepers . Only "but one of them returned when he saw that he was healed (...)."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Fiedler, Das Matthäusevangelium (2006), 199 ISBN 3-17-018792-9
- ↑ Theodor Seidl, article “Aussatz” in: Neues Bibel-Lexikon I (1991), 218 ISBN 3-545-23074-0
- ^ Herbert Ulonska, Christologie in der Lebenspraxis (2000), 112 ISBN 3-8258-4569-9
- ↑ Elberfeld Study Bible, Luke 17:15