And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”
4. And Jesus saith to him, See that thou tell it not to any one Some persons, by way of excusing the leper, think that Christ did not seriously forbid him to publish the miracle, but rather gave him an additional excitement to do so.
Those who have tasted Christ cannot help but desire more of Him. Yet multitudes followed at large while few truly cleaved to Him. Matthew rightly places this leper's cure first among the miracles: leprosy was God's mark of displeasure, and Christ's healing shows He came to turn away wrath by taking away sin itself.
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Commenting on Matthew 8:1-4
And Jesus saith unto him, see thou tell no man, &c. Not that this fact could be concealed, if it was done publicly, before the multitude; nor was it Christ's design that it should be; only it was his counsel to this man, that whilst he was on the road to Jerusalem, and when he was come there, that he would speak of it to...