Luke 17, you see that one out of the 10, who were supernaturally, miraculously healed by Jesus,

actually came back to thank Jesus.

Not just to give him kind of a lip service or a typical thank you, but this man was just as enthusiastic and just as intense in his

thanksgiving as he was when he was begging Jesus for healing. Look at the scripture with me,

please. A group of ten, melancholy lepers, met Jesus at the border between Samaria and Galilee.

I'm going to tell you why, the border.

This is very important.

Luke, being meticulous with the details, he had to give us that little detail.

Because by law, the lepers had to live outside the border of the

city. By law, lepers have to live in no man's land. These ten were mixtures of Samaritans and Jews.

We don't know exact percentage. Normally, the Jews and the

Samaritans have now dealing with each other. You remember from John Chapter 4, where Jesus was

talking to the Samaritan woman, she reminded him, the Jews have now dealing with the Samaritans.

But misery drew the two groups together, the two historic enemies together.

The ethnic background was not important when your skin is filled with leprosy.

You see, when your skin covered with white patches called leprosy.

Ethnicity doesn't matter anymore.

In Leviticus 13, the Bible tells us that the diagnosis of leprosy is left to the priest.

And the first time in his sign of leprosy on the skin, the person goes to the priest and the priest gives him seven days of isolation to see if this is just a passing case or not. And after seven days,

he examined him again and if seven days later still there, then he declares him a leper, and declared that by the priest.

At that point, he was taken away into isolation. They have to be outside of society, the outside of the city wall, outside of the community.

They have to be isolated. The only person who's allowed to be near a leper

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