The Leper: Mark 1. 40–45

^{page 245 note 1} Taylor, V., The Gospel according to St Mark (1959), p. 185.

^{page 245 note 2} Knox, W. L., The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels, 1 (1953), 8n. See also Fuller, R. H., Interpreting the Miracles (1963), p. 71 and Nineham, D. E., St Mark (1962), p. 87.

^{page 245 note 3} Luke's πλήρης λήπρας (v. 12) may be a recollection of Lev. xiii. 13, in which case he may understand καθαρίςειν in the sense of ‘to declare clean’.

^{page 245 note 4} Knox, W. L., op. cit. 1, 8n.

^{page 246 note 1} Montefiore, C. G., The Synoptic Gospels (1909), p. 71.

^{page 246 note 2} Taylor, V., op. cit. pp. 185 f.; Cranfield, C. E. B., The Gospel according to St Mark (1963), p. 92.

^{page 246 note 3} Taylor, V., op. cit. p. 185.

^{page 246 note 4} Edersheim, A., The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, 1 (1883), 492. ‘If anyone had obtained by prayer to God the recovery from that plague… such an one returned thanks to God’ (Jos. Ant. 3. 264). God strikes (); God alone can heal.

^{page 246 note 5} Dalman, , The Words of Jesus (1902), p. 65.

^{page 247 note 1} Lake, K., H.T.R. 16 (1923), 197 ff.; Cadoux, A. T., The Sources of the Second Gospel (1935), p. 44; Rawlinson, A. E. J., The Gospel according to St Mark (1925), pp. 20 ff., 256; Richardson, A., The Miracle Stories of the Gospels (1941), p. 60; Cranfield, , op. cit. p. 92.

^{page 247 note 2} This would receive some support from Torrey, C. C., The Four Gospels (1947), p. 298, who points out that can mean ‘rebuke severely’, and also ‘charge strictly’.

^{page 247 note 3} Bernard, J. H., Commentary on the Gospel according to St John, 2 (1928), 392 f.

^{page 247 note 4} Swete, H. B., The Gospel according to St Mark (1902), p. 30.

^{page 248 note 1} M. Neg. 3.1; T. Neg. 3.1.

^{page 248 note 2} The highest degree of uncleanness, the primary source of ritual impurity, is the dead body (Num. xix. 11–21). It is the , ‘the father of the fathers of uncleanness’ (for in this sense see Daube, D., The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism (1956), p. 65). From this descend the the ‘fathers of uncleanness’, or secondary sources of impurity (Num. xix. 22), and this impurity is transmitted in diminishing intensity through the ‘child of uncleanness’ () to the ‘child of the child of uncleanness’. Leprosy is the first of the ‘fathers of uncleanness’, thus the leper is as one dead.

^{page 248 note 3} Baumgarten, J. quoted in Jacob Neusner, ‘The Fellowship in the Second Jewish Commonwealth’, H.T.R. 53 (1960), 125–42. See also Jeremias, J., Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus (1969), pp. 246–67.

^{page 248 note 4} Finkelstein, L., The Pharisees (1946), pp. 52 f.

^{page 249 note 1} Daube, D., The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism (1956), pp. 206–23. See also Newman, J.Semikah (1950), pp. 19, 28 ff., 68. Lk. xii. 14 is an instance where Jesus was called upon to act as ‘lay arbiter’ (), and there again he refused.

^{page 249 note 2} S.J.T. 6 (1953), 291–3.

^{page 249 note 3} Creed, J. M., The Gospel according to St Luke (1942), p. 255.

^{page 249 note 4} Plummer, A., Commentaty on St James and St Jude (1891), p. 277.

^{page 249 note 5} I owe this observation to Professor J. R. Porter.

^{page 250 note 1} Nineham, D. E., St Mark (1963), p. 87.