Mark 1:40
Good News Translation
A man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to Jesus, knelt down, and begged him for help. "If you want to," he said, "you can make me clean."

New Revised Standard Version
A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.”

Contemporary English Version
A man with leprosy came to Jesus and knelt down. He begged, "You have the power to make me well, if only you wanted to."

New American Bible
A leper came to him [and kneeling down] begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean.

there.

Matthew 8:2-4 And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. . . .

Luke 5:12-14 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. . . .

a leper.

Leviticus 13:1-14:57 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Numbers 12:10-15 The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy, . . .

Deuteronomy 24:8,9 Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully. . . .

2 Samuel 3:29 And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.

2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment;

*etc:

2 Kings 5:27 But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.

2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

2 Kings 15:5 And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.

Matthew 11:5 The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Luke 17:12-19 And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off. . . .

kneeling.

Mark 10:17 And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?

2 Chronicles 6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the midst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the presence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands towards heaven,

Matthew 17:14 And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man falling down on his knees before him saying: Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the fire, and often into the water.

Luke 22:41 And he was withdrawn away from them a stone's cast. And kneeling down, he prayed.

Acts 7:60 And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

if thou.

Mark 9:22,23 And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us. . . .

Genesis 18:14 Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

2 Kings 5:7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

Context
The Leper's Prayer
39And he was preaching in their synagogues and in all Galilee and casting out devils. 40And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean. 41And Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand and touching him saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean.…
Cross References
Matthew 8:2
And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Mark 1:41
And Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand and touching him saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean.

Mark 10:17
And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?

Luke 5:12
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Mark 1:39
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