Jesus replied,"Let us go somewhere else - to the nearby villages - so I can preach there also. That is why I have come."
A man with leprosy came to Jesus and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing, Be clean!" Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
The first recognition of Jesus as 'the Holy One of God' comes from a man possessed, and Jesus immediately tries to keep his identity secret(v24). He exercises his power for good over the forces of evil, first by muzzling the voice, then by healing the man. When he heals the sick he forbids the demons to speak, and the man with the skin-disease is warned not to tell of his cure.
Why?
People came to Jesus for their diseases could be healed. But Jesus came to this world is to preach the good news - repent, turn to the Lord. If people does not know the Jesus, even his sick is healed, he will die as others.
Healed the disease and driving our demons are the symbols of His power, son of God.
Jesus us filled with compassion, he reached out his hand to the man with leprosy, he don't have to, just speak it has the same power, he touched the unclean man to show his love reaches the needy men.
Why Jesus tells people not to reveal his true identity?(At least nine times in this Gospel) Why make a secret of the fact that he is the Messiah?
The reason seems to lie in the wrong ides about Messiah and his mission that were current at the time. The people were expecting a political leader to free them from the Romans. Jesus needed time to explain the kind of 'kingdom' he had come to inaugurate(開幕,發動): it was something even his close followers would find hard to grasp.
How?
Why I follow Jesus and believed in Him? for He is my savior, He leads me way to the heaven, he gives me the promise of eternal life through his blood and cleanse my sins. Healing, support what I needed are second priority in my life.
The first recognition of Jesus as 'the Holy One of God' comes from a man possessed, and Jesus immediately tries to keep his identity secret(v24). He exercises his power for good over the forces of evil, first by muzzling the voice, then by healing the man. When he heals the sick he forbids the demons to speak, and the man with the skin-disease is warned not to tell of his cure.
Why?
People came to Jesus for their diseases could be healed. But Jesus came to this world is to preach the good news - repent, turn to the Lord. If people does not know the Jesus, even his sick is healed, he will die as others.
Healed the disease and driving our demons are the symbols of His power, son of God.
Jesus us filled with compassion, he reached out his hand to the man with leprosy, he don't have to, just speak it has the same power, he touched the unclean man to show his love reaches the needy men.
Why Jesus tells people not to reveal his true identity?(At least nine times in this Gospel) Why make a secret of the fact that he is the Messiah?
The reason seems to lie in the wrong ides about Messiah and his mission that were current at the time. The people were expecting a political leader to free them from the Romans. Jesus needed time to explain the kind of 'kingdom' he had come to inaugurate(開幕,發動): it was something even his close followers would find hard to grasp.
How?
Why I follow Jesus and believed in Him? for He is my savior, He leads me way to the heaven, he gives me the promise of eternal life through his blood and cleanse my sins. Healing, support what I needed are second priority in my life.
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