Matthew 8:3
Good News Translation
Jesus reached out and touched him. "I do want to," he answered. "Be clean!" At once the man was healed of his disease.

New Revised Standard Version
He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus put his hand on the man and said, "I want to! Now you are well." At once the man's leprosy disappeared.

New American Bible
He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I will do it. Be made clean.” His leprosy was cleansed immediately.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

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And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

put.

2 Kings 5:11 Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.

I will.

Genesis 1:3 And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

Psalm 33:9 For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.

Mark 1:41 And Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand and touching him saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean.

Mark 4:39 And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm.

Mark 5:41 And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her: Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise.

Mark 7:34 And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.

Mark 9:25 And when Jesus saw the multitude running together, he threatened the unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of him and enter not any more into him.

Luke 5:13 And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Luke 7:14 And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise.

John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

John 11:43 When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

immediately.

Matthew 11:4,5 And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen. . . .

2 Kings 5:14 Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.

Luke 17:14,15 Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean. . . .

Context
The Leper's Prayer
2And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. 4And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:7
And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.

Matthew 11:5
The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Matthew 12:13
Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

Luke 4:27
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

Matthew 8:2
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