Welcome to the subconscious mind mastery podcast. Thomas Miller here. I've been going through something that I just thought, okay, you know what? I saw it again and I thought this would be a really good podcast. And I've got a good platform because I know sometimes you guys really like when we take a look at some of the modern interpretations

or spiritual interpretations of these old Bible stories. Well, I have a really good one for you today.

This comes from the New Testament. I think typically we've maybe gravitated to the Old Testament,

but in the New Testament, this comes from the

Gospel of Luke, Matthew Mark Luke, the third book of the New Testament, chapter 17, and I'm starting

with verse 11, if you want to look this up. But this is a story about gratitude, and it is a really

good story that, you know, if this was told 2,000 years ago,

it still happens today. All right? So here's the setup. It said, on his way to Jerusalem,

Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. Now, you've got to set up right there,

first of all. Jesus was from Galilee. Samaria was like

enemy territory. In that culture and at that time, Samarians were basically half-bred Jews with Gentiles.

And remember, in that culture, people were not nearly as tolerant as we are today.

So they felt that they were absolute human trash, is basically about the way that they

perceived them. Jesus was on the Galilee side. He was, quote unquote, pure Jewish blood. So for him to even be walking along

there would be like somebody walking on the, you know, the red light district if you were a pastor of,

well, they do that. Let's see. I got an analogy what I come up with. But you get the drift, right? It's like you wouldn't go to that

neighborhood. Why was Jesus walking along the border to Samaria? What was he trying to do?

Well, it says as he was going into a village, 10 men who had leprosy met him. Now, leprosy was basically

a catch-all term for skin issues, but lepers back in that day,

because, again, they didn't understand the disease. If you had leprosy, you were sent to a camp,

and you lived out and away from everybody else. So these 10 men who had this skin disease came to him.

And when we step back into that culture, of course,

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