Discovery BoxMatthew 8:3 
Context8:3 He stretched out his hand and touched 1 him saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 11:5
Context11:5 The blind see, the 2 lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.
1 sn Touched. This touch would have rendered Jesus ceremonially unclean (Lev 14:46; also Mishnah, m. Nega’im 3.1; 11.1; 12.1; 13.6-12).
2 tn Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more. Two other conjunctions are omitted in this series.
