IVP New Testament Commentary Series – The Leper Has Perfect Trust in Jesus' Power (8:2)
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The Leper Has Perfect Trust in Jesus' Power (8:2)

He knows Jesus is able to make him clean if he wants to; he is not using if you are willing as a religious way of saying, "I doubt that you can, but I would be happy if you might do something for me anyway." Yet the text demonstrates, as has been already noted, that his trust in Jesus' power is not presumption either.

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