Hi everyone and welcome to the logical daily gospel exegesis podcast where we take a look at the

gospel reading from today's mass and we attempt to provide an exegesis of the

literal sense of the text. The Catholic Church tells us that whenever we're looking at the Bible,

to work out the meaning we have to start with the literal sense of the text. And so often in homilies,

the priest will probably give maybe a spiritual application of the text, but we always want

to start with the literal sense.

And that's what we are getting at in this podcast.

Today we're looking at a passage from Luke, Luke chapter 5 verses 12 to 16.

Here's the passage.

Jesus was in one of the towns when a man appeared, covered with leprosy.

Seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him.

Sir, he said, if you want to, you can cure me.

Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, of course I want to, be cured. And the leprosy left him at once.

He ordered him to tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering

for your healing as Moses prescribed it, as evidence for them. His reputation continued to grow and large crowds would gather to hear him and to have

their sickness cured, but he would always go off to some place where he could be

alone and pray.

So that's our reading for today, a short healing story where Jesus heals a man with leprosy.

So the setting here in verse 12, it tells us that Jesus was in one of the towns.

And in context, if you read just before that, we learn that Jesus is in one of, he's in the area of Galilee, the northern part of Israel,

which is where he does most of his ministry. So he's in one of the villages there in Galilee.

A man approaches him who's covered with leprosy. So in that time, leprosy referred to a range of

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