Mark 1:40-42

Jesus heals

In His compassion and love He can heal you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. He will give you an abundant, eternal  life with Him. With faith the size of a mustard seed (a very, very small seed) he can move mountains in your life.

Just Believe in His power to do what we cannot!

Mark 1:40-42

40 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

41 Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” 42 As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.

Jesus Christ was the fullness of God in human flesh. God the Father, God the Spirit, and God the Son were united in the humanity of Jesus. 

Without Jesus, we had no hope. We were alienated, separated and lost, "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). God offered Himself as the final sacrifice for sin, making a way to restore a relationship with us.

It cost Jesus everything to redeem us: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24).

Praise God we are healed by His wounds, brought near to Him through the blood of the cross and given peace through His sacrifice. So great a cost - so great a Savior! 

Jesus did what we could not do to give us a life we could never experience apart from Him. First5.

Jesus said, "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).

He not only healed but touched the leper. How often do we see the need but remain unmoved and uninvolved? Scripture has over 400 passages admonishing us to care for the poor. NKJ Bible.

The Greek word used here, lepros, identifies a person afflicted by a skin disease. Leviticus categorizes such individuals as ritually unclean and prohibits them from coming in contact with other Israelites during their illness. Jesus already demonstrated His ability to eliminate uncleanness when He expelled the demonic spirit at Capernaum. Now, a man with a different type of impurity seeks cleansing, and Jesus’ success confirms that God’s rule overcomes all obstacles to health and holiness.

Jesus affirms His desire to cleanse the man, indicating He is not upset by the leper’s plea. The disease represents pain and suffering. Jesus’ physical contact with the leper, followed by His immediate cleansing of him, emphasizes that Jesus’ spirit of holiness is more powerful than the uncleanness generated by the skin disease. Rather than Jesus becoming unclean, He makes the leper clean. Faithlife Bible.

Matthew 8:2 And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Matthew 8:3 Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Luke 5:12 And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Luke 5:13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him.