Power of CleansingMark 1:40-45

Mark 1:40-45A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man.“I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”  Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.

Mark 1:41 - Jesus was indignant – NIV

•NIV Footnote: Many manuscripts Jesus was filled with compassion

•William Barclay's New Testament renders it as "Jesus was moved with pity to the depths of his being"

Healing Touch

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. - Isa 53:4

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

CS Lewis – The Four Loves