Jesus came to heal, save, and deliver

Jesus came to heal

Read Leviticus 13

1. In the Old Testament, anyone diagnosed of leprosy is pronounced:

• an unclean person – 2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
• cursed to die of the disease without help – 44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
• stigmatised – 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
• disgraced and separated from the society – 46All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
• banished to the wilderness – 46All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
• and his garment burned with fire – 52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

2. Jesus came to heal the lepers, cared for the lepers, listened to the lepers, and accepted the lepers.
3. Leprosy was treated as a plague under the Mosaic laws. Jesus came to heal the lepers in the new dispensation.