Matius 26:31

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:

‘I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ ¹ 

Matius 8:3

8:3 He stretched out his hand and touched ²  him saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

¹ sn A quotation from Zech 13:7.

² 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).