Mark 1:41
Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”
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ASV
And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean.
KJV
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
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A note on the manuscripts
Genuinely contested
Compassion or anger? Jesus and the leper
Nearly every manuscript says Jesus was moved with compassion toward the leper; a few say he was moved with anger, and the rule that the harder reading is usually original points, uncomfortably, toward anger.
What it changes: This one touches something real, though not a doctrine: how we read Jesus' emotional life. A Christ who is angry in this scene is a Christ whose compassion has teeth, anger at what leprosy has done, not at the man kneeling in front of him.
Commentary
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12 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → |
| σπλαγχνισθεὶς | splagchnistheis | having compassion | G4697 → |
| ἐκτείνας | ekteinas | having stretched out | G1614 → |
| τὴν | tēn | the | G3588 → |
| χεῖρα | cheira | hand | G5495 → |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | of Him | G846 → |
| ἥψατο | hēpsato | He touched him | G681 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| λέγει | legei | says | G3004 → |
| αὐτῷ· | autō | to him; | G846 → |
| θέλω, | thelō | I am willing, | G2309 → |
| καθαρίσθητι. | katharisthēti | do be cleansed. | G2511 → |
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