Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts, Matt. Hello. Hey, Matt. And my name's Todd. And we are two buds who love just, you know what, we love telling the stories of the Bible. We love sharing how they move in our life and all those kinds of fun things. And even more than that, we'd love to

share them with you. And so, man, we're just so thankful for another time together. You know how I just

use the word thankful, right, Matt? Mm-hmm. I did, because why? Because, well, Thanksgiving is just around

the corner. And we're going to talk a little bit about thankfulness and what the

Bible has to say about Thanksgiving. And so, Matt, with that, I'm going to throw it your way.

That's right, buddy. Today's story is all about thankfulness. And the story takes place in the time

of Jesus. And we follow him as he's on his way to Jerusalem. He's traveling along the

border of Samaria and Galilee. As Jesus enters a village, he hears a group of 10 lepers who are just

calling out to him for help, and they're calling out from a distance. You'll remember leprosy was the

super contagious skin disease, so gnarly that the people who had it

had to separate themselves from the rest of the population so that folks wouldn't catch it

those who had leprosy were considered unclean so anyway these folks they're yelling to jesus

jesus master have mercy on us. Jesus tells them,

go and show yourselves to the priests. Now, this was necessary because the priests were the ones

who determined if the leprosy was gone and if folks, if they were all good, these folks could

rejoin the rest of the community.

So Jesus tells these guys who currently have leprosy, go and show yourselves to the priests.

Interesting, right, buddy?

Yeah.

The scripture tells us that he didn't cleanse them and then they go.

The Bible tells us that these folks, as they

walked toward the priests, they were cleansed. Isn't that interesting?

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