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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 ...
Jesus heals the leper by Alexandre Bida. There is some speculation as to whether the illness now called Hansen's disease is the same described in Biblical times as leprosy. [4] As the disease progresses, pain turns to numbness, and the skin loses its original color and becomes thick, glossy and scaly.
Roger Baxter in his meditations, [5] notes that the lepers' prayer had three important properties, that are requisite to every good prayer: They were humble, because "they stood afar off." They prayed in harmony and zealously, "they lifted up their voice." This accords with Psalm 21: "when I cried to Him, He heard me."
Pope Francis quotes this incident as an example of Jesus' preference, when he was healing someone, to do so "not from a distance but in close proximity". [4] 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 addresses his remarks to the crowd that has been following him since Matthew 8:1. [2] This is the only time in Matthew where Jesus is amazed by anything, and one of the very mentions of Jesus' emotions in Matthew. [3] The only other time in the gospels that Jesus is amazed is in Mark 6:6 where he is astonished by the unbelief of his ...
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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