Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”
19. Thy faith hath saved thee. The word save is restricted by some commentators to the cleanness of the flesh. “Le mot dont a ici use l’Evangeliste est celuy mesme que quasi par tout on tourne, Sauver.” — “The word which the Evangelist has here employed (σέσωκε) is the same word which is almost always rendered save.” But if this be the case, since Christ...
We have here an account of the cure of ten lepers, which we had not in any other of the evangelists. The leprosy was a disease which the Jews supposed to be inflicted for the punishment of some particular sin, and to be, more than other diseases, a mark of God's displeasure; and therefore Christ, who came to take away sin, and turn away wrath...
Commenting on Luke 17:11-19
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees,.... Or "asked" by them; who expected the Messiah, and that when he was come he would set up a temporal kingdom, and deliver them from the Roman yoke; when they should enjoy great liberty, peace, and prosperity; so that they might put the following question to Christ in a serious manner, agreeably to these expectations: or it...