Were Not Ten Made Clean? | Luke 17: 11-19 with Sarah Stenson

Sarah Stenson joins this week's conversation to talk about October 13th's lectionary text about Jesus healing ten lepers. 

Questions we asked:

• Where does faith come from?
• How is this passage not about what we should do when Jesus heals us?
• Who was the Samaritan?

Luke 17:11-19 

 11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, 13 they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" 14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean. 15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. 16 He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? 18 Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" 19 Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."

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