Ten Lepers

   Do you ever get upset when you do something very nice for someone, that they do not even acknowledge your generosity or say thank you to your kindness?  It might be where you say to yourself that you will think twice next time about being kind or gracious that unthankful person. 

   Now, imagine being cured of an incurable disease, a disease for those who had it never had people visit them or were kept away from people so that no one else would catch the disease.  You are quarantined, separated from humanity.  Then before you know it, a cure is made available and when given the medical procedure, you are completely healed.  Would you be overjoyed and extremely thankful to the people who came up with the cure?

   Back in Jesus’ day, leprosy was an incurable disease.  If you contracted leprosy, you were banished from the city or town you lived in for people believed it was very contagious (which actually it isn’t).  When you walked around, you would have to alert people that you were in their proximity.  You had to survive at the edge of the city, eating what scraps people tossed to you or what you could scrounge up.  This was a disease of the skin and can cause numbness. 

   Let’s say you had this disease.  One day you hear Jesus is passing through and the rumor was, He healed people.  Would you want to get close enough to Him and hope H ...

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