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The Leper & The Priests

(Matthew 8:1-4)

Matthew 8 1 When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. 2And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 3And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”

Leviticus 14

1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, 4 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command them to kill one

• f the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. 6 He

shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed

• f the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean

and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

SYMBOLISM: (1) Cedar wood (2) Scarlet yarn (3) Hyssop wood (4) 2 live birds, one killed the other released (5) Blood over water

Matthew 10 1 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

7And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of

heaven is at hand.’ 8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

Matthew 11

2Now when John heard in prison about the deeds

• f the Christ, he sent word by his disciples 3and said to

him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” 4And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Matthew 26

• v. 3
• v. 14
• v. 47
• v. 57

Matthew 27

• v. 41
• v. 51

Acts 6

7And the word of God continued to increase, and the

number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became

• bedient to the faith.

Matthew 8

4And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to

anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to

them.”