{"id":12696,"date":"2022-01-19T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2022-01-19T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:51:00","slug":"jesus-and-the-ten-lepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12696\/jesus-and-the-ten-lepers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the Ten Lepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good morning over there!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was reading today&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Thought for the Morning*<\/em>, and I had a thought of my own! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10223\" src=\"https:\/\/pjhmail.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/smiley-face2.png\" alt=\"smiley face2\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I wonder if Jesus sent the lepers back to the priest because of how the priest would receive them?\u00a0When Jesus healed them of that horrible and isolating disease, they may have been very full and happy, praising the man that healed them.\u00a0 I was!\u00a0 I was on death&#8217;s doorstep!\u00a0 Addiction and mess is its own leprosy.\u00a0 When he healed me, I couldn&#8217;t help but tell everyone and sing his praises.\u00a0 I was and still am amazed at the healing I received!\u00a0 I still want everyone to know Jesus did it!\u00a0 I am just trying to picture the men (who would have been known as lepers) taking the news to the priest, and I wondered how the priest would have reacted to their praise of Jesus!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Or was it a ceremonial act, that they needed to be ceremonially cleansed after Jesus healed the lepers, so they could be accepted back into society?\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember clearly what you have said about that.\u00a0 Just thinking about the things of God!\u00a0 Part of my amazing healing! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12548\" src=\"https:\/\/pjhmail.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/12\/red-heart.png\" alt=\"red heart\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth Durham<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Jesus would have sent those lepers to the priests even if he had known the priest would hate them for their testimony because that was the will of God, as expressed in Moses&#8217; law, and Jesus always did what His Father wanted done.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>I have never thought about how the priests would have received the lepers and their glowing testimonies about Jesus.\u00a0 Thank you for adding that to me!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* <span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><a style=\"color:#3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfm01-19\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Jesus, The Stumbling Block<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning over there! I was reading today&#8217;s\u00a0Thought for the Morning*, and I had a thought of my own! I wonder if Jesus sent the lepers back to the priest because of how the priest would receive them?\u00a0When Jesus healed them of that horrible and isolating disease, they may have been very full and happy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}