Mark 1:41

41 Jesus felt sorry for him, reached out, touched him, and said, "I'm willing. So be clean!"

Mark 1:41 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:41

And Jesus, moved with compassion
At the sad and deplorable case the poor man was in, being a merciful high priest, and not with a desire of popular applause, and vain glory:

put forth his hand and touched him;
though the leprosy was spread all over him, and there was no place clean, and touching him was forbidden by the law:

and saith unto him, I will be thou clean; (See Gill on Matthew 8:3).

Mark 1:41 In-Context

39 So he went to spread [the Good News] in the synagogues all over Galilee, and he forced demons out of people.

40 Then a man with a serious skin disease came to him. The man fell to his knees and begged Jesus, "If you're willing, you can make me clean."

41 Jesus felt sorry for him, reached out, touched him, and said, "I'm willing. So be clean!"

42 Immediately, his skin disease went away, and he was clean.

43 Jesus sent him away at once and warned him,