The story has a favorable outcome for the man. I just think a different approach to the poor guy would have given him more dignity. But who knows? Maybe he didn't mind being an object lesson for the Pharisees
He gets physically healed. But what about his social and emotional state? How are those affected?
;A better example of this issue is the public exposure of Jesus' healing of the woman with the menstrual bleeding problem (Mark 5:25-34). She realizes that anyone she touches is made "unclean." So to avoid public humiliation, she sneaks up behind Jesus, thinking, "I can be healed if I can just touch His garment, unnoticed." But Jesus senses that healing power has gone out of Him and embarrasses her by asking, "Who touched me?" The mere fact that God heals her is a tacit refutation of the validity of Jewish menstrual taboos.
Jesus would be within His rights to ask him and the woman with menstrual bleeding problem, "Would you rather be denied your healing or let me make my teaching point through your healing? It's the height of hubris to demand that God heal you on your own terms.
There's a biblical story about ten lepers who are healed and only one returns to say thank you. I wonder why this is?
"Perhaps?" Who wouldn't be? The 9 lepers were grateful for their healing. They just lacked the courtesy
Nowhere in the text (Luke 17: 12-19) does it say the other 9 lepers were grateful. Gratitude would certainly be a reasonable response but the text does not specify this.
It goes without saying that the 9 lepers were grateful for the fact that they would no longer be shunned by Jewish society. But gratitude is only virtuous when it is expressed to the benefactor.
Defy Jesus' request and forfeit healing. The invalid in John 5 has languished by the healing Pool of Bethzatha for a long time without bothering to ask for help in getting to the pool. So Jesus asks him, "Do you even want to be healed (5:6)?"
Are there other requests by Jesus we defy and other things we forfeit?
This is showing---- Faith in Action -----This is what James speaks of when He says Faith without action is dead faith ----Saving Faith that you get from hearing the Word always requires a Positive Response ---Through Grace --Healing was there for the man ---and by his action of going to the area where Jesus (who is our Healer still today ) he was healed --
This is interesting, IMO.....was it called the healing pool before he went in?
There is an interesting parable about a woman persisting with her pleas to an unjust judge.(Luke 18: 1-8)
Yes. And together with the Parable of the Persistent Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-8), we have one of many examples of Jesus' sexually parallel parables, 2 parables making a similar point, one of which features a man and the other of which features a woman.
The nine who did not come back were Jews who did exactly what Jesus told them to do, go to the temple. The tenth, The Samaritan, was not allowed to go to the temple, so he went back to Jesus. He should not have been surprised by the nine not coming back.
