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LUKE 17:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 17:13Luke 17:15
“And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.”
When he saw them, he said, go, show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were cleansed — go, show yourselves to the priests: the Torah instruction for verified cleansing (Leviticus 14). The healing occurs as they went — not at the moment of the command but in the process of obedience. As they went, they were cleansed: the faith that acts on the word before the evidence produces the evidence.

Church Fathers on Luke 17:14

After speaking the foregoing parable, our Lord censures the ungrateful; TITUS BOST. saying, And it came to pass, showing that the Samaritans were indeed well disposed towards the mercies above mentioned, but the Jews not so. For there was enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans, and He to allay this, passed into the midst of both nations, that he might cement both into one new man.

Ambrose · 4th century

The Savior next manifests His glory by drawing over Israel to the faith. As it follows, And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, men who were banished from the towns and cities, and counted unclean, according to the rites of the Mosaic law.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

They associated together from the sympathy they felt as partakers of the same calamity, and were waiting till Jesus passed, anxiously looking out to see Him approach. As it is said, Which stood afar off, for the Jewish law esteems leprosy unclean, whereas the law of the Gospel calls unclean not the outward, but the inward leprosy.

TITUS BOST ·
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