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The Sixth Lesson: The Work of Organization.1003
The Sixth Lesson: The Work of Organization.
Leaving Capernaum behind Him, with its crowds of invalids seeking
healing, and fighting off the demands that would have rendered Him a
professional healer instead of a Teacher and preacher of the Message of
Truth, Jesus passed on to other parts of the land, taking with Him the band
of disciples and faithful followers who now traveled with Him.
But He did not altogether relinquish His healing work. He merely made it
an incident of His ministry, and did not allow it to interfere with His preaching
and teaching. The Gospel narratives show a number of remarkable cures
made by Him at this time, and the few recorded cases are, of course, merely
occasional incidents that stand out in the minds of the people among
hundreds of less noticeable cases.
The cure of the leper is one of such remarkable cases. Leprosy was a
foul disease much dreaded by the people of Oriental countries. And the
unfortunate person afflicted by it became an outcast and pariah from whom
all others fled as from an unclean and impure thing.
There was a leper in the part of the country in which Jesus was traveling
and teaching. He heard of the wonderful gift of healing accredited to the
young preacher, and he determined to get into His presence and beg
His aid. How the leper managed to get through the crowds and into the