Contradictions and Paradoxes in Luke 5:13

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Luke 5:13 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Luke 5:13. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Luke, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man with leprosy, saying he wanted to make him better, and right away, the man was healed from his sickness. This shows Jesus's love and power to help people who are hurting.

Luke 5:13: And he put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Contradiction with Leviticus 13:46

This verse instructs that a person with leprosy must live alone outside the camp, which contradicts Jesus touching the leper in Luke 5:13.

Leviticus 13:46: All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp [shall] his habitation [be].

Contradiction with Numbers 5:2

This verse commands to send away anyone with leprosy from the camp, opposing Jesus' act of healing the leper with a touch.

Numbers 5:2: Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 26:21

King Uzziah was isolated due to leprosy, opposing Jesus' direct contact with a leprous man.

2 Chronicles 26:21: And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land. [several: Heb. free]
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