Leviticus 14:23, commentary and pictures

On the eighth day of the cleansing process the healed person was to bring the required offerings to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord as part of the prescribed cleansing rites. The bringing of the person with the offerings to the priest at the tabernacle entrance on that day belonged to the law governing examination and restoration. The priest could not accept the offering until he had first thoroughly examined the man and publicly proclaimed him entirely free from infectious disease, in sound health, and able to unite again with family and friends and the congregation without endangering them. That examination and decision established freedom from the disease and fitness to return to family and community and to Israel.

This requirement belongs to the shadowy types and ceremonial ordinances given by Christ Himself to Moses, whose claims He recognized until His death when type met antitype. Their sacredness and importance are seen in their accomplishment, with the death of Christ giving correct knowledge of their signification. By commanding the leper He had healed to go to the same priests who had banished him and present the offering commanded through Moses, Jesus honored and upheld the law and sanctioned the law requiring offerings. That direction showed His work and teaching were not opposed to the law of Moses and the Jewish code.

That obedience and the priest's examination and public certification stood as public testimony to the healing and irrefutable testimony to the priests of His healing power and divine power. Although thus witnessed to, they still refused Him as Messiah. Such a pronouncement of complete freedom from the disease was something never before known.