Verb katharizō (to cleanse, to clean) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

8: 2and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you choose, you can cleanse (katharizō) me."
8: 3He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose. Be cleansed (katharizō)!" Immediately his leprosy was cleansed (katharizō).
10: 8Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse (katharizō) the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
11: 5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed (katharizō), the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.
23: 25"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean (katharizō) the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
23: 26You blind Pharisee! First clean (katharizō) the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may become clean.

Mark

1: 40A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean (katharizō)."
1: 41Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean (katharizō)!"
1: 42Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean (katharizō).
7: 19since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean (katharizō).)

Luke

4: 27There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed (katharizō) except Naaman the Syrian."
5: 12Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean (katharizō)."
5: 13Then Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, "I do choose. Be made clean (katharizō)." Immediately the leprosy left him.
7: 22And he answered them, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed (katharizō), the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them.
11: 39Then the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean (katharizō) the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
17: 14When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean (katharizō).
17: 17Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean (katharizō)? But the other nine, where are they?

Acts

10: 15The voice said to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean (katharizō), you must not call profane."
11: 9But a second time the voice answered from heaven, 'What God has made clean (katharizō), you must not call profane.'
15: 9and in cleansing (katharizō) their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.

1 John

1: 7but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses (katharizō) us from all sin.
1: 9If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse (katharizō) us from all unrighteousness.