Today, I want to be the foreigner going against the grain, giving thanks to God and glorifying him even when it is anathema ...

Themes: Acceptance; compassion; caring for all; the life of Jesus. Summary: The source for this well-known Bible story is three of the gospels: Matthew 8: 1 - 4, Mark 1: 40 - 45, and Luke 5: 12 - 15.

A healed person becomes inherently priestly. When Jesus heals his first leper, he stretches out his hand and touches him. Although he sternly charges the man to “say nothing to anyone” but only to ...

In keeping with the tradition that he inherited, Mark depicts Jesus as performing an impressive array of healing miracles: the man with the unclean spirit, the leper, the paralytic, the man with a ...

This is the only time in Mark’s Gospel where Jesus heals out of pity, showing great compassion by touching the leper. The leper showed great faith in Jesus’ ability to heal him. He said ...

PHOTOGRAPHED AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Accounts of large crowds coming to Jesus for healing are consistent with what archaeology reveals about first-century Palestine, where diseases such as leprosy ...

He healed lepers by touching them ... the sick through anointing with oil. God seeks to heal and redeem us through spirit and matter. Jesus says, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter ...

When Jesus sent out the 12 disciples He gave them specific instructions concerning their new ministry.  “Heal the sick, ...

When the fame of our Lord Jesus Christ came to Abgar, the ruler of Edessa, who was suffering from leprosy, Abgar sent a messenger named Ananias, through him asking the Savior to heal him of his ...

In keeping with the tradition that he inherited, Mark depicts Jesus as performing an impressive array of healing miracles: the man with the unclean spirit, the leper, the paralytic, the man with a ...