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Part of Yeshua’s calling was to heal the sick and there was no disease that caused more Jews to tremble than the prospect of leprosy. Once a priest diagnosed a person with leprosy, that person was an outcast, shunned in the community and compelled to live a life of loneliness. Healthy people who came into contact with a leper were considered unclean, too.
Yeshua’s healing of these lepers is very significant because he not only healed them with his words but with his touch. Some claim that Yeshua’s cleansing of lepers in this fashion was a rebuke and a refutation of the Levitical system but Yeshua’s healings actually uphold the Levitical system because he commands the lepers to go back to the priests to have their healing confirmed so they can rejoin the community of believers.
Texts: Luke 5:12-16; Matt. 8:2-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 17:12-16; Leviticus 13-14
What did the leper ask of Yeshua?
How did the wording of his question express his faith in Yeshua?
How did the Greeks describe leprosy?
How do the modern forms of leprosy differ what the bible describes as leprosy?
What people mentioned in the Bible were healed of leprosy?
How is Yeshua’s touching the leper significant?
How was Yeshua afflicted with leprosy?
What step did Yeshua ask the lepers to take after their healing?
Did the priests heal people or simply confirm a healing that God already wrought?
Did Yeshua replace the Levitical system with His healings?
Reader: John Walsh. Speaker: Jeff.