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Behold (kai idou). Quite a Hebraistic idiom, this use of kai after egeneto (almost like hoti) with idou (interjection) and no verb.
Full of leprosy (plērēs lepras). Mar 1:40 and Mat 8:2 have simply “a leper.” Evidently a bad case full of sores and far advanced as Luke the physician notes. The law (Lev 13:12.) curiously treated advanced cases as less unclean than the earlier stages.
Fell on his face (pesōn epi prosōpon). Second aorist active participle of piptō, common verb. Mar 1:40 has “kneeling” (gonupetōn) and Mat 8:2 “worshipped” (prosekunei). All three attitudes were possible one after the other. All three Synoptics quote the identical language of the leper and the identical answer of Jesus. His condition of the third class turned on the “will” (thelēis) of Jesus who at once asserts his will (thēlō) and cleanses him. All three likewise mention the touch (hēpsato, Luk 5:13) of Christ’s hand on the unclean leper and the instantaneous cure.