Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadCambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 17:12 - 17:12
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
12. δέκα λεπροὶ ἄνδρες. So in 2Ki 7:3 we find four lepers together. The one Samaritan would not have been allowed to associate with the nine Jews had not leprosy obliterated religious distinctions, as it still sadly does in the leper-houses (Biut el Masakin, ‘Abodes of the Unfortunate’) at Jerusalem, where alone Jews and Mahometans will live together.
πόρρωθεν. As the Law required, Lev 13:45-46. See on Luk 5:12. Usually they stood at the roadside, as they still do, clamorously demanding alms, but they had heard the fame of Jesus, and asked from Him a vaster benefit. The leper of Luk 5:12 was exceptionally bold.