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Jesus heals the leper by Alexandre Bida There is some speculation as to whether the illness now called Hansen's disease is the same described in Biblical times as leprosy. [ 4 ] As the disease progresses, pain turns to numbness, and the skin loses its original color and becomes thick, glossy and scaly.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. The English Standard Version translates the passage as: And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Cornelius a Lapide notes that the other nine lepers rejoiced at their cure, but were self-centered, and so went to the priests purely for the end that they might be "declared to be clean, and restored to the society of men," and thus they thought little of glorifying Jesus." [6]
Driving of the Merchants From the Temple by Scarsellino. In the narrative, Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, where the courtyard was described as being filled with livestock, merchants, and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian shekels. [6]
This verse is paralleled at Mark 1:44-45, but Mark does not begin his narrative with crowds present and the author of Matthew may not have reconciled the verses when copying from Mark. [1] The Messianic Secret is an ongoing theme in the Gospel of Mark, but Matthew seems to care less about this issue, dropping several of the commands to secrecy ...
A church in Switzerland experimented with artificial intelligence to create a digital version of Jesus, leading to a debate on if it was just "blasphemous."
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
[1] It is said that the house is the soul, which is empty, since it is lacking God, and devoid of His grace. It is swept clean of all virtue, piety and goodness. Notably, in Tobit 8 there is an example of the devil Asmodeus being bound by Raphael and sent to a desert place, that he may not injure others. [2] [3]