- What events occurred after Jesus and his disciples left the synagogue?
- Why did people bring all the sick and demon-possessed to Jesus in the evening “after sunset”?
- How did the healings Jesus performed authenticate his message? What was that message?
- How did the healings that Jesus performed foreshadow what he ultimately came to accomplish?
- How did Jesus prepare for the ministry and travels that lay before him?
- For what purpose did Jesus come for as expressed in vs 38? What had his disciples expected Jesus to do with their claim “Everyone is looking for you!”?
- Touching a person with leprosy created great risk for both contracting the disease andbecause it made a person “unclean” for a period of time to be included in society. What did the leperous man believe about Jesus as he approached him?
- Why was Jesus able to make the man clean without becoming “unclean” himself? What did this show that Jesus had authority over?
- Why do you think Jesus told the leperous man not to tell anyone about his cleansing but instead go and show himself to the priest?
- What was the result of the man’s lack of obedience?
Application:
- What types of beliefs, thoughts, behaviors cause me to hesitate to come to Jesus for only what he can give me?
- What comfort does knowing that Jesus has authority over both sin and the law bring to my daily life?
- Why is following Jesus’s example of prayer important for the things I encounter in life?
- Like the healed leper giving the priest a testimony about who Jesus is, what in my own life provides testimony to the healing Jesus has given me?
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