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A Different Lesson from the 10 Lepers
Luke 17:11-19 tells the story of 10 lepers being healed, one of which was a Samaritan. We infer the other 9 were Jews. That the Samaritan, and only the Samaritan, came back to show gratitude to the Jewish and World Messiah is the shocking point.
But can I make a different point that I realize is not the point of Jesus’s story? Its truthfulness is found in the reality we see still today. Why were Jews hanging around with a Samaritan and vice versa? As a rule they didn’t like each other! Thre answer is they all 10 had the same disease.
Here’s the lesson: What people have in common is more binding than their differences. Cancer wards demonstrate this. As followers of Jesus, that commonality – and the willingness to share and spread that commonality – must be more drawing and binding than anything that separates and divides: nationality, race, economics, politics, disagreements, age, marital status, and so on. And for that commonality – that we have been healed by Jesus – let’s show gratitude together.
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