TEN LEPERS (Luke 17:11)

CURE OF THE WHOLE PERSON.

Only one had a complete cure of his whole person. He was the despised foreigner who had no claim to the cure, especially from the hands of a Jew; the one whose cure involved an expansion of vision; the one whom the Jews would have thought least likely to give thanks. This one, the Samaritam, returned to thank God the Father and to praise Jesus. Only he saw and fully understood what had really happened. Not only had he been healed, but he has found God's salvation; His return to Jesus amounted to his conversion. Loud though his voice may been, his gesture of throwing himself down before Jesus was louder...

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