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Cleansing of the ten lepers (c. 1035-1040) According to Berard Marthaler and Herbert Lockyer, this miracle emphasizes the importance of faith, for Jesus did not say: "My power has saved you" but attributed the healing to the faith of the beneficiaries.
In approaching Jesus, the man was in violation of Levitical law. In touching the leper, Jesus also defies Levitical law. [8] When the Son sent forth the disciples with instructions to heal the sick, cleansing the lepers was specifically mentioned in Matthew 10:8.
Touching the leper is seemingly in defiance of Leviticus 5:3 and touching an unclean leper would have made Jesus himself unclean. Keener argues that this is not a violation of the law, as Jesus is fulfilling it by his act of cleansing the leper. [5] Bede used this verse as a compact criticism of various heresies he perceived.
Local priests were found throughout the Jewish areas, but to make sacrifice the leper would have to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem. [3] Early commentators, such as John Chrysostom, read the leper providing evidence of the miracle as an attack on the Jewish establishment, defiant proof of Jesus' divinity to the establishment. More likely the ...
In Christian teachings, the miracles were as much a vehicle for Jesus's message as his words. Many emphasize the importance of faith, for instance in cleansing ten lepers, [55] Jesus did not say: "My power has saved you," but said: [56] [57] Rise and go; your faith has saved you.
Matthew also adds lord to his version, again emphasizing the importance of Jesus. [3] Lord in Matthew is only used by disciples and followers of Jesus, it was not a term of general politeness. [4] This story of the Leper occurs in both Mark and Luke, with this verse being paralleled by both Mark 1:40 and Luke 5:12.
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Luke 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records "some sayings of Jesus" [1] and the healing of ten lepers. [2] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.