Ten Men Healed
11 While traveling to Jerusalem, he [Jesus] passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he entered a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance
13 and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 When he saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And while they were going, they were cleansed.
15 But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God.
16 He fell facedown at his feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan.
17 Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?
18 Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
19 And he told him, “Get up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.”
Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
"A sense of our spiritual leprosy should make us very humble whenever we draw near to Christ. It is enough to refer ourselves to the compassions of Christ, for they fail not. We may look for God to meet us with mercy, when we are found in the way of obedience. Only one of those who were healed returned to give thanks.
It becomes us, like him, to be very humble in thanksgivings, as well as in prayers. Christ noticed the one who thus distinguished himself, he was a Samaritan. The others only got the outward cure, he alone got the spiritual blessing."
My thoughts
This passage is a blessing to read. The man who was saved was a foreigner, an outsider. We were the outsiders until we took Jesus as our Savior. Not one of us came to salvation through our own birth. Instead, we were grafted into the family of God by His great mercy and our humble faith.
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