Marcos 1:40-45

40 Jesús sana a un leproso
Un hombre con lepra se acercó, se arrodilló ante Jesús y le suplicó que lo sanara.
—Si tú quieres, puedes sanarme y dejarme limpio —dijo.

41 Movido a compasión,
Jesús extendió la mano y lo tocó.
—dijo—.

42 Al instante, la lepra desapareció y el hombre quedó sano.

43 Entonces Jesús lo despidió con una firme advertencia:

44 —No se lo cuentes a nadie. En cambio, preséntate ante el sacerdote y deja que te examine. Lleva contigo la ofrenda que exige la ley de Moisés a los que son sanados de lepra.
Esto será un testimonio público de que has quedado limpio.

45 Pero el hombre hizo correr la voz proclamando a todos lo que había sucedido. Como resultado, grandes multitudes pronto rodearon a Jesús, de modo que ya no pudo entrar abiertamente en ninguna ciudad. Tenía que quedarse en lugares apartados, pero aun así gente de todas partes seguía acudiendo a él.

Marcos 1:40-45 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MARK

This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and sufferings of Christ: the writer of it was not one of the twelve apostles, but an evangelist; the same with John Mark, or John, whose surname was Mark: John was his Hebrew name, and Mark his Gentile name, Ac 12:12,25, and was Barnabas's sister's son, Col 4:10, his mother's name was Mary, Ac 12:12. The Apostle Peter calls him his son, 1Pe 5:13, if he is the same; and he is thought to have wrote his Gospel from him {a}, and by his order, and which was afterwards examined and approved by him {b} it is said to have been wrote originally in Latin, or in the Roman tongue: so say the Arabic and Persic versions at the beginning of it, and the Syriac version says the same at the end: but of this there is no evidence, any more, nor so much, as of Matthew's writing his Gospel in Hebrew. The old Latin copy of this, is a version from the Greek; it is most likely that it was originally written in Greek, as the rest of the New Testament.

{a} Papias apud Euseb. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 5. {b} Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 91. sect. 18.