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1 | Jesus cleanses the leper. What do we see | Mark | Emmaus | 75691 | ||
How about doing a little Bible Study on the StudyBibleForum? I would like to discuss the passaage in Mark 1:40-45, when Jesus cleanses the leper. "And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, "If You are willing, You can make me clean." Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and *said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away, and He *said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere." What do we see in this passage? Emmaus |
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2 | Jesus cleanses the leper. What do we see | Mark | srprimeaux | 75692 | ||
This is where Jesus met a grown man's need for a meaningful touch, a man who was barred by law from ever touching anyone again... To touch a leper was unthinkable. Banishing lepers from society, people would not get within a stone's throw of them. (In fact, they would through stones at them if they did come close!) ... With their open sores and dirt bandages, lepers were the last persons anyone would want to touch. Yet the first thing Christ did for this man was touch him. Even before Jesus spoke to him, He reached out His hand and touched him. Can you imagine what that scene must have looked like? Think how this man must have longed for someone to touch him, not throw stones at him to drive him away. Jesus could have healed him first and then touched him. But recognizing his deepest need, Jesus stretched out His hand even before He spoke words of physical and spiritual healing. Jesus came to be active and compassionate to the people around Him. He exemplified tenderness when He healed the leper by touching Him. In Christ, SRP |
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3 | Jesus cleanses the leper. What do we see | Mark | Emmaus | 75823 | ||
srprimeaux, I notice two other interesting things about this passage. 1. In the OT whenever some unclean thing or person touches or is touched by a clean thing, the clean thing becomes unclean. But in the Gospels this pattern is reversed when Jesus is involved. Anytime he touches something unclean, the unclean thing or person becomes clean, even the dead who are actually raised to life. Quite a reversal of pattern! 2. According to Lev 13:1-2; 44-46, the unclean leper must live outside the camp. After Jesus heals the leper in the passage from Mark, "it was impossible for Him to enter a town openly. He remained outside in desterted places," as if He was taking the place of the leper as an outcast. But "people kept coming to Him from everywhere" even though according to the Law they should have considered Him unclean too for having touched the leper. Emmaus |
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