He threw himself at Jesus's feet and thanked him — and he was a Samaritan — threw himself at Jesus' feet: the prostration of gratitude. The Samaritan identification is the revelation that explains the return — the one who had the most cultural and religious reason to avoid Jewish religious authorities returned to give thanks. The nine Jewish lepers proceeded as instructed; the Samaritan came back.

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