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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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Parallel translations (2) ▾

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.

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.

The manuscripts, and the case each way →

Commentary

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
καὶkaiAndG2532
σπλαγχνισθεὶςsplagchnistheishaving compassionG4697
ἐκτείναςekteinashaving stretched outG1614
τὴνtēntheG3588
χεῖραcheirahandG5495
αὐτοῦautouof HimG846
ἥψατοhēpsatoHe touched himG681
καὶkaiandG2532
λέγειlegeisaysG3004
αὐτῷ·autōto him;G846
θέλω,thelōI am willing,G2309
καθαρίσθητι.katharisthētido be cleansed.G2511

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John the Baptist Baptizes Jesus — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
John the Baptist Baptizes Jesus — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain