A leper confronted Jesus and said to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." I would imagine that the crowd around Jesus fell silent. They all gazed at him and wanted to see what he was going to do. They probably said to themselves, "One thing he would never do is touch him." Then they remembered that in his previous healing incidents he did touch those who were sick. "Would he now risk such a thing?" they murmured one to another. What made this such an electrifying moment was the fact that they never knew what Jesus was going to do.

Taking A Risk

We probably have never considered this, but the leper was also taking a risk. Under the law he was not supposed to be within the camp (Leviticus 13:46). He would wear his bell to warn others that he was in the area and they should keep cl…