Contradictions and Paradoxes in Luke 5:12

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Luke 5:12 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Luke 5:12. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Luke, the man with a bad skin disease believed that Jesus could make him better if Jesus wanted to, so he asked Jesus for help. This shows how people trusted Jesus to heal them because they believed he was special and could do amazing things.

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

Contradiction with Leviticus 13:45-46

These verses instruct those with leprosy to isolate from the community, which contrasts the account in Luke 5:12 where a leper approaches Jesus directly.

Leviticus 13:45-46: And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

Contradiction with Numbers 12:10-15

This passage describes leprosy as a punishment and requires separation from the camp, differing from the approachability and healing in Luke 5:12.

Numbers 12:10-15: And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 26:19-21

King Uzziah, afflicted with leprosy, is forced to live in a separate house, contrasting the interaction between Jesus and the leper in Luke 5:12.

2 Chronicles 26:19-21: Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
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