{ "schemaVersion": 1, "kind": "event", "id": "healing-the-leper", "era": "life-of-jesus", "order": 334, "title": "Healing the Leper", "group": "galilean-ministry", "date": { "kind": "relative", "label": "Ministry in Galilee", "note": "A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence." }, "pin": [ 35.35, 32.85 ], "pinConfidence": "Approximate region", "pinPlace": "galilee_433", "summary": "A man with leprosy asks Jesus to cleanse him. Jesus touches and heals him, then directs him to the priest and the prescribed offering. News spreads, and Jesus seeks secluded places.", "context": "The Gospel term describes a condition requiring ritual cleansing; it should not be treated as a modern clinical diagnosis. The directions to the priest connect healing with the Torah’s procedures for restoration.", "question": "Why does the account include what the healed man should do afterward?", "locationNote": "The wider Galilean ministry supplies regional orientation. Luke says only one of the towns; the healing location is not an identified village.", "passages": [ { "reference": "Matthew 8:1–4", "range": [ 40008001, 40008004 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208%3A1%E2%80%934&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Matthew", "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him." }, { "book": "Matthew", "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "Suddenly a leper came and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”" }, { "book": "Matthew", "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." }, { "book": "Matthew", "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”" } ] }, { "reference": "Mark 1:40–45", "range": [ 41001040, 41001045 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201%3A40%E2%80%9345&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”" }, { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”" }, { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "And immediately the leprosy left him, and the man was cleansed." }, { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "Jesus promptly sent him away with a stern warning:" }, { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”" }, { "book": "Mark", "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter." } ] }, { "reference": "Luke 5:12–16", "range": [ 42005012, 42005016 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%205%3A12%E2%80%9316&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Luke", "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”" }, { "book": "Luke", "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him." }, { "book": "Luke", "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "“Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”" }, { "book": "Luke", "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses." }, { "book": "Luke", "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray." } ] } ], "related": [ { "range": [ 3014001, 3014032 ], "kind": "teaching", "note": "Leviticus describes the priestly examination and offerings after cleansing.", "reference": "Leviticus 14:1–32", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2014%3A1%E2%80%9332&version=BSB" } ], "places": [ { "id": "galilee_433", "name": "Galilee", "coordinate": [ 35.35, 32.85 ], "kind": "Region", "confidence": "Approximate region", "confidenceSource": "editorial", "sources": [ { "label": "Gospel setting; extent is an editorial illustration, not a boundary", "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/4" } ], "extent": [ [ 35.1, 32.55 ], [ 35.68, 33.15 ] ] } ], "mapPeriod": "gospel-land", "further": [ { "label": "Gospel setting; extent is an editorial illustration, not a boundary", "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/4" } ], "provenance": { "sources": [ { "name": "theographic", "ref": "286" }, { "name": "editorial" } ], "review": "draft" }, "eraName": "Life of Jesus", "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=healing-the-leper", "attribution": [ "Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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