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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.
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.
Fresco by Balthasar Augustin Albrecht showing Jesus healing a man with dropsy., Herrenchiemsee Abbey, 1715. Healing a man with dropsy is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels (Luke 14:1-6). [1] [2] According to the Gospel, one Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, and he was being
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Among others who were not able to ascend into the mount was the leper, as bearing the burden of sin; for the sin of our souls is a leprosy.And the Lord came down from the height of heaven, as from a mountain, that He might purge the leprousness of our sin; and so the leper as already prepared meets Him as He came down.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus heals ten lepers and only the Samaritan among them thanks him, [19] [9] although Luke 9:51–56 [20] depicts Jesus receiving a hostile reception in Samaria. [7] Luke's favorable treatment of Samaritans is in line with the favorable treatment elsewhere in the book of the weak and of outcasts, generally. [ 21 ]
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.
In most cases, Christian authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. [10]In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water).
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.