I don't discount the possibility that there is «magic» in the world, but you haven't told me that you just witnessed
the healing of a leper and want to know if I think the messiah might have shown up in town.
More broadly, the Pope's embrace recalls images of Jesus»
healing of lepers, again a blanket term for a variety of skin diseases common in first - century Judea and Galilee.
They are «shrubs and scrubs» who have heard of his inaugural address and of
his healing of lepers and paralytics and of his forgiving sins and calling sinners to follow him.
Not exact matches
These miracles included the
healing of a blind man and a
leper and bringing life to the dead.
(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children
of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out
of clay, a figure like that
of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I
heal him who was born blind, and the
leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.
In the times
of the biblical narrative Jesus is
healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.
In fact, he used Namaan's
healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many
lepers in Israel in the time
of the prophet Elisha, and none
of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).
He fights with every religious leader
of his day (they are representives
of God), hangs out with some
of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors),
healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law),
healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and
heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all
of «humanity», etc..
Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection
of leprosy has been
healed in the
leper, 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.
He'd
healed folks elsewhere, but not at home, even, he says, as in the age
of Elijah and Elisha, when lots
of people starved and
lepers abounded but miracles from God came only in Sidon and Syria.
Jesus
healed the
lepers, gave sight to the blind,
healed the paralized, exorcised demons from possesed men, brought back Lazarus from the dead, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS
OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT
OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW IT.
How, by My permission, you
healed the blind man and the
leper, and by My permission you brought the dead forth; and how I protected you from the Children
of Israel when you brought them clear signs; whereupon the unbelievers among them said: «This is nothing but plain magic».
While Jesus socialized with those the temple priests would condemn, and
healed the «unclean»
lepers, he used those opportunities to teach about the love
of God and the wideness
of God's mercy.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower
of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son
of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form
of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you
healed the blind and the
leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children
of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
With a
healing ministry, just like the
lepers Jesus
healed, a lot
of them take their
healing and go home... back to business as usual.
Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape
of clay as it were the likeness
of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst
heal him who was born blind and the
leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children
of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those
of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.
But Luke tells us that one
leper, the Samaritan, the foreigner, upon seeing before his eyes the miraculous
healing of his body, is overcome with gratitude.
Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature
of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the
healings (Samaritan
leper) could be an argument against these aspects
of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation
of the kingly activity
of God.
The gospel should be put into practice, including casting out demons,
healing the sick, cleansing the
leper and raising the dead because Jesus told us to do all he commanded, the supernatural lifestyle was part
of it.
Before it is killed though it walks on water, turns water into wine,
heals lepers and makes a zombie out
of a man named Lazarus (funny that there is only one source docu.ment for these spectacular events).
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult
of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He
heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He
heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He
heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches
lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages»
of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord
of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept
of the Law into one
of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
The demonstration they give
of its authenticity and validity as well as
of their own credibility is that in preaching they at the same time «
heal the sick, cleanse the
lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils» (Mart.
The
lepers are
healed and the deaf hear, The dead are raised, And the poor receive the message
of salvation.»
If one out
of every ten
lepers healed returned to give thanks, the mission would have been successful.