Today's gospel passage comes in the middle of Luke's "journeying" section. The text opens with an obviously Lukan addition that asserts Jesus is still "on the way to Jerusalem." But the path Jesus has chosen is slow and apparently circuitous. In order to be passing through "the region between Samaria and Galilee," Jesus would have been traveling along an east/west boundary, with Galilee to the north and Jerusalem far to the south. By noting Jesus' boundary position, Luke sets the scene for the mixed ethnic group of lepers Jesus is about to encounter.
About to enter a village in this region - because of the mixed geography, we cannot know for certain here whether this is a Samaritan or a Galilean town - Jesus is "approached" by a group of 10 lepers. Because Jesus has already had an experien…