A Compassionate Touch | Mark 1:40-45
Mark 1:40-45
Jesus Cleanses a Leper
40 And a leper[a] came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” 41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” 42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.43 And Jesus[b] sternly charged him and sent him away at once, 44 and 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, for a proof to them.” 45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.
Mark 1:34
And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
Mark 1:38
And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”
A Hopeless Condition to A Desperate Petition
A Compassionate Feeling to A Full Healing
A Demanding Rule to A Disobedient Reply
A Temporary Separation to A Complete Restoration
A Hopeless Condition to A Desperate Petition
Mark 1:40
And a leper[a] came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”
Luke 17:14
When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.
A Hopeless Condition to A Desperate Petition
A Compassionate Feeling to A Full Healing
Mark 1:41
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
Jesus Touches the Untouchable and Cures the Incurable
A Hopeless Condition to A Desperate Petition
A Compassionate Feeling to A Full Healing
A Demanding Rule to A Disobedient Reply
Mark 1:43
And Jesus[a] sternly charged him and sent him away at once,
Mark 1:24-25
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” 25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”
Mark 3:11-12
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
Mark 7:36
And Jesus[a] charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Mark 1:38
And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”
Mark 1:44b
and 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, for a proof to them.”
Luke 7:22
And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers[a] are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.
Mark 1:45a
But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news,
“Mark began this story with Jesus on the inside and the leper on the outside. At the end of the story Jesus is outside ‘in desolate places”. Jesus and the lepor have traded places.” — Jonathan Edwards
Jesus Touches the Untouchable and Cures the Incurable
Jeremiah 2:22
Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
Romans 5:8
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Hebrews 12:12-14
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But[a] God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—