# Lepers Healed

Life of Jesus · Draft · BSB

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Date: Judea, Perea and the road to Jerusalem. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.

Traveling between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus encounters ten men with leprosy. He directs them to the priests; they are cleansed on the way, and one Samaritan returns to give thanks.

Luke identifies the returning man as a Samaritan but names neither the village nor a precise border crossing. The account should retain both the healing of all ten and the distinctive response of the one who returns.

## Primary Scripture

[Luke 17:11–19 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A11%E2%80%9319&version=BSB)

17:11 While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

17:12 As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance

17:13 and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

17:14 When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

17:15 When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

17:16 He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.

17:17 “Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?

17:18 Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”

17:19 Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”

## Related Scripture

[Leviticus 14:1–32 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2014%3A1%E2%80%9332&version=BSB)

The priestly procedures after cleansing explain the instruction to show themselves to the priests.

## Location evidence

Luke places Jesus between Samaria and Galilee and at an unnamed village. The shaded transition region is illustrative, not a surveyed provincial border.

Event map marker: Approximate region; \[longitude, latitude\] = \[35.35, 32.5\]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.

Samaria–Galilee borderlands: Approximate region. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.35, 32.5\]. Classification source: editorial.

Illustrative regional extent: \[\[35.15,32.35\],\[35.6,32.65\]\]; not a measured confidence interval.

[Named Gospel setting; original approximate extent](https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/17)

[Named Gospel setting; original approximate extent](https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/17)

## For the class

What does the returning man do that prompts Jesus’s questions?

## Interpretation and reuse

Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.

Record source: theographic (436)

Record source: editorial

Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.

Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm

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