Quotes & Notes on:     Mark 1:41   

• John Wesley's Notes:
  (No comment on this verse).
   

• The Fourfold Gospel:

    And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and touched him. Mark habitually notes the feelings, and hence also the gestures of Jesus. It was not an accidental, but an intentional, touch. Popular belief so confused and confounded leprosy with the uncleanness and corruption of sin, as to make the leper feel that Jesus might also compromise his purity if he concerned himself to relieve it. The touch of Jesus, therefore, gave the leper a new conception of divine compassion. It is argued that Jesus, by this touch, was made legally unclean until the evening (Le 13:46; 11:40). But we should note the spirit and purpose of this law. Touch was prohibited because it defiled the person touching, and aided not the person touched. In Jesus' case the reasons for the law were absent, the conditions being reversed. Touching defiled not the toucher, and healed the touched. In all things Jesus touches and shares our human state, but he so shares it that instead of his being defiled by our uncleanness, we are purified by his righteousness. Moreover, Jesus, as a priest after the order of Melchizedek (Heb 5:6), possessed the priestly right to touch the leper without defilement (Heb 4:15).
  
  And saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean. The Lord's answer is an echo of the man's prayer (Mr 1:40). The words, "I will," express the high authority of Jesus.
  
   

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

   * moved. Mr 6:34; Mt 9:36; Lu 7:12,13; Heb 2:17; 4:15
  * I. Mr 4:39; 5:41; Ge 1:3; Ps 33:9; Heb 1:3
   

• Robertson's Word Pictures:
   Being moved with compassion (splagchnistheis). Only in Mark. First aorist passive participle
   

• William Burkitt's Notes:

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• Family Bible Notes:

   I will; this was the claiming and exercising of divine power
   

• 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
  (No comment on this verse).
   

• People's New Testament Commentary:

  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Albert Barnes' Commentary:

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• Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

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• Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

  What a blessed "I will." Christ's will is omnipotent. He can save us even with his wish. He can save us at this present moment.
  
  That touch bespoke the sympathy of Jesus. Any one else would have been made unclean by contact with diseased flesh; with him it was otherwise, for his touch and word removed the cause of uncleanness.
   

• Adam Clarke's Commentary:

  (No comment on this verse).

   

• Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

   (No comment on this verse).