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==Jesus and leprosy==

==Jesus and leprosy==

:''main article [[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) longer form Chapters 8-14#Eleven|Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version), Chapter Eleven, marginal note.'']]

:''Main article [[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) longer form Chapters 8-14#Eleven|Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version), Chapter Eleven, marginal note.'']]

"'''he stretched out his hand and touched him'''" Luke 5:13 <br> The Law of Moses prohibited touching anything or anyone unclean, and whoever did so ''deliberately'' was unclean and cursed.  

"'''And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I will; be clean.’ And immediately the leprosy left him.'''" Luke 5:13  

 

The Law of Moses prohibited touching anything or anyone unclean, and whoever did so ''deliberately'' was unclean and cursed.  

:''See the following texts'' <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+6%3A17&version=RSVCE 2 Corinthians 6:17] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+52%3A11&version=RSVCE Isaiah 52:11], <br> "touch not the unclean"  

:''See the following texts'' <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+6%3A17&version=RSVCE 2 Corinthians 6:17] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+52%3A11&version=RSVCE Isaiah 52:11], <br> "touch not the unclean"  

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19%3A20&version=RSVCE Numbers 19:20] <br> "the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly"  

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19%3A20&version=RSVCE Numbers 19:20] <br> "the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly"  

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A20-21&version=KJV Deuteronomy 29:20-21 KJV] <br> "The L<small>ORD</small> will not spare him, but then the anger of the  L<small>ORD</small> and his jealousy shall smoke against that man".

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A20-21&version=KJV Deuteronomy 29:20-21 KJV] <br> "The L<small>ORD</small> will not spare him, but then the anger of the  L<small>ORD</small> and his jealousy shall smoke against that man".

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+13-14&version=RSVCE Leviticus 13 and 14] <br> "leprosy...is unclean"  

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+13-14&version=RSVCE Leviticus 13 and 14] <br> "leprosy...is unclean"  

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+27%3A26&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 27:26] <br> "Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them".

: [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+27%3A26&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 27:26] <br> "Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them".

:If Jesus were only a man he could have done nothing ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9%3A33&version=RSVCE John 9:33]). Any ordinary man who deliberately touched any unclean leper defiantly broke the law of Moses, deliberately made himself abominable, unclean, and thus showed that he was an ordinary man who sinfully defied God, ''[[ipso facto]]'' immediately [[Excommunication|cutting himself off from the assembly]] of the people of God (Latin ''[[latae sententiae]]''), and thus demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he was under the curse of God. Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A10-15&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 29:10-15], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A19-21&version=RSVCE 19-21].  

:If Jesus were only a man he could have done nothing ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9%3A33&version=RSVCE John 9:33]). Any ordinary man who deliberately touched any unclean leper defiantly broke the law of Moses, deliberately made himself abominable, unclean, and thus showed that he was a man who sinfully defied God, ''[[ipso facto]]'' immediately [[Excommunication|cutting himself off from the assembly]] of the people of God (Latin ''[[latae sententiae]]''), and thus demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he was under the curse of God. Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A10-15&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 29:10-15], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+29%3A19-21&version=RSVCE 19-21].  

:Jesus ''deliberately'' touched people who were unclean, with unclean diseases, who had unclean spirits, and he was touched by people who were unclean—he even touched dead corpses.  

:Jesus ''deliberately'' touched people who were unclean, with unclean diseases, who had unclean spirits, and he was touched by people who were unclean—he even touched dead corpses.  

:See also the article <br> [http://internetbiblecollege.net/Lessons/Sanctification%20In%20The%20Old%20Testament.pdf Sanctification In The Old Testament (internetbiblecollege.net)] pdf.

:See also the article <br> [http://internetbiblecollege.net/Lessons/Sanctification%20In%20The%20Old%20Testament.pdf Sanctification In The Old Testament (internetbiblecollege.net)] pdf.

:The prophet [[Elisha]] only told Naaman the Syrian, a leper, to wash in the Jordan River, but he did not claim to have cleansed him of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5&version=RSVCE 2 Kings 5]). <br> The Levitical priests, upon examination of anyone who had become clean of leprosy, were authorized to declare that anyone formerly afflicted with leprosy was now clean, but they themselves did not cleanse anyone of leprosy. In the ritual sacrifices they offered for cleansing it is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel who cleanses and forgives them in accepting their ritual sacrifices and offerings—the ritual offerings themselves did not cleanse them within, and certainly not from the uncleanness of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A11&version=RSVCE Hebrews 10:11]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+51&version=RSVCE Psalm 51]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+1%3A4&version=RSVCE Leviticus 1:4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A5&version=RSVCE 19:5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A29&version=RSVCE 19:29]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A29&version=RSVCE 22:29]), .  

:The prophet [[Elisha]] only told Naaman the Syrian, a leper, to wash in the Jordan River, but he did not claim to have cleansed him of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5&version=RSVCE 2 Kings 5]).  

 

:The Levitical priests, upon examination of anyone who had become clean of leprosy, were authorized to declare that anyone formerly afflicted with leprosy was now clean, but they themselves did not cleanse anyone of leprosy. In the ritual sacrifices they offered for cleansing it is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel who cleanses and forgives them in accepting their ritual sacrifices and offerings—the ritual offerings themselves did not cleanse them within, and certainly not from the uncleanness of leprosy ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A11&version=RSVCE Hebrews 10:11]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+51&version=RSVCE Psalm 51]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+1%3A4&version=RSVCE Leviticus 1:4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A5&version=RSVCE 19:5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A21-22&version=RSVCE 19:21-22]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+22%3A19-25&version=RSVCE 22:19-25]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+22%3A29&version=RSVCE 22:29]). See

:*[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/2891.htm Strong's number 2891 <big>'''טֱ֛הֱר'''</big> ''țâhêr'', clean, cleanse, purge, purify]

:*[http://come-and-hear.com/talmud/kodashim.html '''Babylonian Talmud:''' Introduction to '''''Seder Kodashim''''': Holy Things, ''pertaining to sacrifices'' (come-and-hear.com)]

:In the Gospel, Jesus is the one who personally and directly makes lepers clean (''see also'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A11-19&version=RSVCE Luke 17:11-19]). This is [[Evidence|evidentiary]] [[testimony]] from eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1-2), based on the Jewish scriptures, that Jesus Himself is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel Who alone cleanses from disease and sin. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+103%3A2-3&version=RSVCE Psalm 103:2-3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+33%3A8&version=RSVCE Jeremiah 33:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+12%3A40&version=RSVCE John 12:40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A8&version=RSVCE Matthew 10:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+16%3A17-18&version=RSVCE Mark 16:17-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5%3A14-16&version=RSVCE James 5:14-16].

:In the Gospel, Jesus is the one who personally and directly makes lepers clean (''see also'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A11-19&version=RSVCE Luke 17:11-19]). This is [[Evidence|evidentiary]] [[testimony]] from eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1-2), based on the Jewish scriptures, that Jesus Himself is the L<small>ORD</small> God of Israel Who alone cleanses from disease and sin. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+103%3A2-3&version=RSVCE Psalm 103:2-3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+33%3A8&version=RSVCE Jeremiah 33:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+12%3A40&version=RSVCE John 12:40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A8&version=RSVCE Matthew 10:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+16%3A17-18&version=RSVCE Mark 16:17-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5%3A14-16&version=RSVCE James 5:14-16].

:*[https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/pilgrims-may-have-spread-leprosy-across-medieval-europe Pilgims may have spread leprosy across medieval Europe - Amy Middleton reports (cosmosmagazine.com)]<br>"Throughout the medieval period the act of pilgrimage was viewed as a particularly efficacious spiritual and devotional practice and many of the medieval saints' shrines were associated with miraculous cures and healing, including leprosy." Researchers Simon Roffey and Katie Tucker, University of Winchester, and Michael Taylor, University of Surrey. ''No specific details are given.''

:*[https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/pilgrims-may-have-spread-leprosy-across-medieval-europe Pilgims may have spread leprosy across medieval Europe - Amy Middleton reports (cosmosmagazine.com)]<br>"Throughout the medieval period the act of pilgrimage was viewed as a particularly efficacious spiritual and devotional practice and many of the medieval saints' shrines were associated with miraculous cures and healing, including leprosy." Researchers Simon Roffey and Katie Tucker, University of Winchester, and Michael Taylor, University of Surrey. ''No specific details are given.''

:*[https://core.ac.uk/display/63729755 A relation of the miraculous cure of Susannah Arch: of a leprosy and ptysick, wherewith for years past she had been sorely afflicted, Susannah Arch, Robert Hume (Apothecary), Thomas Fortey and b. 1627. Charles Nichols (core.ac.uk)]<br>See [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A45118.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext '''Full Text, 1695''' (quod.lib.umich.edu)]

:*[https://core.ac.uk/display/63729755 A relation of the miraculous cure of Susannah Arch: of a leprosy and ptysick, wherewith for years past she had been sorely afflicted, Susannah Arch, Robert Hume (Apothecary), Thomas Fortey and b. 1627. Charles Nichols (core.ac.uk)]<br>See [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A45118.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext '''Full Text, 1695''' (quod.lib.umich.edu)]

:*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlQelg1Xl3c Amma Cures Dattan the Leper - YouTube.<br> Author Ethan Walker III (youtube.com)] accessed 5/29/2019. (''Video featuring healing accompanied by audio Indian musical chant of names of Hindu gods, with brief descriptive printed text below the picture''.)

:*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlQelg1Xl3c Amma Cures Dattan the Leper - YouTube.<br> Author Ethan Walker III (youtube.com)] accessed 5/29/2019. (''Video featuring healing accompanied by audio Indian musical chant of names of Hindu gods, with brief descriptive printed text below the picture''.)<br> Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A38-40&version=RSVCE Mark 9:38-40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9%3A49-50&version=RSVCE Luke 9:49-50]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+11%3A23&version=RSVCE 11:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A30&version=RSVCE Matthew 12:30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+11%3A27-29&version=RSVCE Numbers 11:27-29]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A24&version=RSVCE Matthew 24:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+13&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 13].

:Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A38-40&version=RSVCE Mark 9:38-40]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9%3A49-50&version=RSVCE Luke 9:49-50]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+11%3A23&version=RSVCE 11:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A30&version=RSVCE Matthew 12:30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+11%3A27-29&version=RSVCE Numbers 11:27-29]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A24&version=RSVCE Matthew 24:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+13&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 13].

 

== See also ==

== See also ==