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Luke 5:11-15<\/h2>\n
12\u00a0<\/sup>While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.\u00a0When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 13\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.\u00a0\u201cI am willing,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cBe clean!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0And immediately the leprosy left him.<\/span><\/p>\n 14\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus ordered him,\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t tell anyone,\u00a0but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded\u00a0for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 15\u00a0<\/sup>Yet the news about him spread all the more,\u00a0so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.<\/span>\u00a016\u00a0<\/sup>But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.<\/span><\/p>\n Jesus’ command for the leper is in keeping with the law of Moses which is exactly what one would expect from a rabbi. However, Jesus intended this man’s presentation to be a testimony. What is the this testimony of? One would think it would be a testimony of Jesus’ healing powers, which would likely enrage the Priests, Pharisees, and Sadducee. If Jesus is trying to keep a low profile then He’s not going to have much success when He is sending healed lepers to the temple.<\/p>\n Or is Jesus trying to send a message to the ruling Jewish elites without being bombarded by people in the countryside? It might be never fully known what Jesus’ strategy was, but we can ask Him when we get to meet Him face to face in heaven.<\/p>\n 14\u00a0<\/span>The\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0said to Moses,<\/span>\u00a02\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThese are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest:<\/span>\u00a03\u00a0<\/sup>The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease,<\/span>\u00a04\u00a0<\/sup>the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop\u00a0be brought for the person to be cleansed.<\/span>\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.<\/span>\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.<\/span>\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>Seven times\u00a0he shall sprinkle\u00a0the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease, and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields.<\/span><\/p>\n 8\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThe person to be cleansed must wash their clothes,\u00a0shave off all their hair and bathe with water;\u00a0then they will be ceremonially clean.\u00a0After this they may come into the camp,\u00a0but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.<\/span>\u00a09\u00a0<\/sup>On the seventh day\u00a0they must shave off all their hair; they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean.<\/span><\/p>\n 10\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cOn the eighth day\u00a0they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamba year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah\u00a0of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering,\u00a0and one log\u00a0of oil.<\/span>\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>The priest who pronounces them clean shall present\u00a0both the one to be cleansed and their offerings before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0at the entrance to the tent of meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n 12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThen the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering,\u00a0along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0as a wave offering.<\/span>\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>He is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest;\u00a0it is most holy.<\/span>14\u00a0<\/sup>The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.<\/span>\u00a015\u00a0<\/sup>The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,<\/span>16\u00a0<\/sup>dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0seven times.<\/span>\u00a017\u00a0<\/sup>The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.<\/span>\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed\u00a0and make atonement for them before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n 19\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThen the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness.\u00a0After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering<\/span>\u00a020\u00a0<\/sup>and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for them,\u00a0and they will be clean.<\/span><\/p>\n 21\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cIf, however, they are poor\u00a0and cannot afford these,\u00a0they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah\u00a0of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,<\/span>\u00a022\u00a0<\/sup>and two doves or two young pigeons,\u00a0such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.<\/span><\/p>\n 23\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cOn the eighth day they must bring them for their cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting,\u00a0before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a024\u00a0<\/sup>The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering,\u00a0together with the log of oil,\u00a0and wave them before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0as a wave offering.<\/span>\u00a025\u00a0<\/sup>He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.<\/span>\u00a026\u00a0<\/sup>The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,<\/span>\u00a027\u00a0<\/sup>and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a028\u00a0<\/sup>Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering\u2014on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.<\/span>\u00a029\u00a0<\/sup>The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a030\u00a0<\/sup>Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, such as the person can afford,<\/span>\u00a031\u00a0<\/sup>one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering,\u00a0together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0on behalf of the one to be cleansed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 32\u00a0<\/sup>These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings\u00a0for their cleansing.<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy Luke 5:11-15 12\u00a0While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.\u00a0When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.\u201d 13\u00a0Jesus reached out his hand and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12227,"featured_media":14000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2280],"tags":[1900,7265,2344,7268,7266,7309,7311,7310,7267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0Observations & Reflections<\/h2>\n
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So far in Luke it seems as though Jesus is trying to stay a bit lo-key with some of His miracles – at least after He was nearly murdered in His home town. However, this proves to be a tough venture since stories of miracles performed by Jesus are going viral. In this particular case, Jesus asks the man with leprosy to do something interesting. He is to go show himself to the priest in the temple and offer a sacrifice according to the Mosaic Law. This law can be found in the first half of Leviticus 14. Since it’s a longer passage it will be posted below the observations rather than in the middle where quotes usually get placed.<\/p>\n
\nLeviticus 14:1-32
\n[Laws regarding cleansing from skin diseases]<\/h3>\n
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