Luke 17:11-19
- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- Primary comparative texts about Prayer and Piety (includes texts about healing) from Philo, Josephus, Lucian, Pseudepigrapha, Babylonian Talmud, Midrash, Philostratus. Primary texts about the Judean-Samaritan Feud and Samaritan Theology. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
- "A Leper Cured," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
- IV.35, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
- "The Ten Lepers," Luke 17:11-19, Martin Luther, c. 1525.
- From the Geneva Notes (c.1599).
- "Christ does good even to those who will be unthankful, but the benefits of God to salvation only profit those who are thankful."
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary (c. 1700).
- "A sense of our spiritual leprosy should make us very humble whenever we draw near to Christ...Only one of those who were healed returned to give thanks. It becomes us, like him, to be very humble in thanksgivings, as well as in prayers."
- From Wesley's Notes. John Wesley (1703-1791).
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "...their common misery drawing these poor outcasts together (2Ki 7:3), nay, making them forget the fierce national antipathy of Jew and Samaritan."
- From The
People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "His faith had added to it another grace, that of love. His faith had not only saved his body, but he had been born to the new life, his soul was saved."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Commentary,
Luke 17:11-19, David Lose, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- "Amid the various ecclesial, ethical, and liturgical reforms of the sixteenth century, Martin Luther was once asked to describe the nature of true worship. His answer: the tenth leper turning back."
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Comentario del Evangelio,
San Lucas 17:11-19, Gilberto Ruiz, WorkingPreacher.org, Luther
Seminary, 2010.
- "Los pasajes bíblicos que ilustran los encuentros entre extranjeros tienen mucha potencial para informar la predicación."
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
- "Planting Life," commentary by Kate Huey, ucc.org: Sermon Seeds, lectionary citations, weekly theme, lectionary texts, bulletin back page, 2010. (scroll down)
- "Seeing Healing," Mary Hinkle, Pilgrim Preaching, 2004.
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"The
Untouchables," Tony Jones, The Hardest Question, 2010.
- "Why does Jesus keep his distance from the lepers and heal them as they?re walking away?"
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"First
Thoughts on Year C Gospel Passages in the Lectionary,"
Pentecost 20,
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
- "It should not be difficult to find parallels in our own communities. ?You all know what Muslims are like? was a common response after the bombings."
- Exegetical
Notes by Brian P. Stoffregen at CrossMarks
Christian Resources.
- "We see the faith in the one whose beliefs made a difference in the way he acted. I find it ironic that for him to return and glorify God by thanking Jesus, he had to disobey the command from Jesus to go show himself to the priest! When might our thanksgivings to Jesus mean going against what is deemed good and proper?"
- Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2010.
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Exegesis, Aída Besançon
Spencer, Lectionary Homiletics sample, 2010.
- "He had been 'made clean' (katharizo) and physically healed (17:14). Now he was 'saved' (sozo, perfect tense, 17:19). Sozo can refer to healing (Mt 9:21; Lk 8:49-55). But, it can refer to much more: salvation, literally, from death, natural disasters, and political oppression (e.g. Mt 8:25; 27:40, 49; Judg 2:16). Figuratively, in the New Testament it is used of "salvation" from eternal death and sins."
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Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
Luke 17:11-19, David Ewart, 2010.
- "Unfortunately, this is not really a lesson about gratitude and thanksgiving. This is a lesson about praising God; about honouring God; about trusting God."
- Laterally Luke, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
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"'Your Faith Has Made You Well': Healing and Salvation in Luke
17:12-19," Frederick J. Gaiser, Word & World, 1996.
- "To understand the relation between healing and salvation, as depicted by Luke, we will need to consider another distinction, one made often these days in both medical and popular literature, the distinction between healing and cure."
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- "True prayer is free and freeing."
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"Jesus Makes Ten Lepers Clean,"
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"Healing beyond Expectation," The Politics of God: The Way to the Cross,
Eugene C. Kreider,
- "This pericope is most likely a traditional healing story expanded into a story of faith and, as such, becomes further commentary on discipleship in Luke's Gospel."
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"When
Turning Back is the Right Thing," Expository Essay, Dr. William R.
Long.
Part 2.
- "This powerful narrative paints a picture of how porous are the barriers (for God) that we humans erect to separate ourselves from others."
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- "When have you taken healing - love - for granted?"
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"The
Samaritan Leper,"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
- "The greatest downfall of religion is when the religious forget their own sinfulness."
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"The Thankful
Leper," Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Joyful Heart Renewal Ministries.
- "What do you think the lepers expected when they called out to Jesus for mercy?"
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- "Jesus was laughing with delight when he prayed, 'I thank thee, Father. . .'"
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"Tales
of Miraculous Healing," Lamin Sanneh, The Christian Century,
1989. At Religion Online.
- "One of-the most dreaded diseases in all societies has been leprosy, because of its social stigma. Instead of intervening to help, people turned the other way and cut off all contact. The patient died a social death much sooner and far worse than physical death...There is no such thing as closet Christianity, or closet healing."
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"Stay the Course," Barbara Sholis, The Christian Century,
2004, Religion Online.
- "The tenth leper?s faithful, untainted gratitude for God?s mercy is humbling to see. He realizes that life is a gift, that 'just to get up each day is windfall' (John Claypool)."
- "Putting
Faith in Perspective," a study from the Biblical
Studies Foundation.
- "This man is a picture, a prototype of all of those Gentiles who were to be saved by recognizing Jesus to be God?s salvation. This man did not have all of the benefits which the Jewish lepers did, all of the background, all of the exposure to the Scriptures, but He did come into contact with Jesus, and when He did he not only obeyed Him, He trusted in Him as the Messiah. And because of his faith, he was saved."
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Commentary,
Luke 17:11-19, David Lose, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- Articles & Background:
- "The Historical Jesus and the Historical Samaritans: What can be Said?", John. P. Meier, Biblica, 2000.
- "Miracles,
In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings,"
Jerome H. Neyrey,
University of Notre Dame, 1995.
- "...we should attend to the institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom. The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant. 8.45-48)."
- "The
Religious Cancer of Racism," James H. Cone. beliefnet.
- "White theologians should study racism as seriously as they investigate the historical Jesus."
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Betz, Hans Dieter, "The Cleansing of
the Ten Lepers," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1971.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carroll John T.,
"Between Text & Sermon, Luke 17:11-19," Interpretation, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Clifton-Soderstrom, Michelle,
"Recalling Luke's Healer: Slave Doctoring as Liberative Healing,"
Ex
Auditu, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Cogan, Mordechai,
"For We, Like You, Worship Your God: Three Biblical Portrayals of
Samaritan Origins," Vetus Testamentum, 1988.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Dawn, Maggi, "The Untouchables," The Christian
Century, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Dawsey, James M., "Jesus' Pilgrimage
to Jerusalem," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 1987.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Duke, Paul D., "Down the Road and
Back," The Christian Century, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Enslin, Morton S., "The Samaritan Ministry and
Mission," Hebrew Union College Annual, 1980.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Gaiser, Frederick J., "'Your Faith Has Made You
Well': Healing and Salvation in Luke 17:12-19," Word & World,
1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hamm, Dennis, S.J.,
"What the Samaritan Leper Sees: The Narrative Christology of Luke 17:11-19,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Harris, Mark, "And Jesus Laughed,"
The Christian Century, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kreider, Eugene C., "The Politics of God: The Way to
the Cross," Word & World, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Neyrey, Jerome H., S.J., "Lost in Translation: Did It
Matter IF Christians 'Thanked' God or 'Gave God Glory'?" Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Nickle, Keith F., "Ten Lepers Cleansed," Journal
for Preachers, 2000. (Sermon)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Radillo, Rebeca M., "The Embodiment
of Enmity," The Living Pulpit, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Roschke, Ronald W.,
"Healing in Luke, Madagascar, and Elsewhere," Currents in Theology
and Mission, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Sanneh, Lamin, "Tales of Miraculous Healing,"
The
Christian Century, 1989.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Sholis, Barbara, "Windfall," The Christian Century,
2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Stagg, Frank, "Luke's Theological Use of Parables,"
Review & Expositor, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Betz, Hans Dieter, "The Cleansing of
the Ten Lepers," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1971.
- Reviews:
- Sermons:
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- "Gratitude," 14 October 2007, Samuel Zumwalt
- "Thankful and Well," 10 October 2004, Walter W. Harms
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- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
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- With Children:
- "Children's Literature: A Resource for Ministry," Connections: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney and Luke 17:11-19; Union Presbyterian Seminary, 2010.
- "The Leper Who Said Thank You," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts.
- "Ten Lepers," Fr Max Bowers, Kids Church.
- "Jesus Heals Ten Lepers," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
- "A Thankful Leper," children's sermon, coloring page. Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons 4 Kids.
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"Jesus Heals Ten
Lepers,"
- Drama:
- "Shreds of Hope," a monologue, Jim Hatherly.
- "The Lepers of Ginae," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
- "Waiting in Line," John McNeil, dramatix.
- "Ten Lepers," Kent Suss, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art, Luke 17:17, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Clip Art Images: Luke 17:11-19, Luke 17:11-19 #2, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
- Luke 17:11-19, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
- Luke 17:11-19 at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- The Leper Thanks Jesus, Henry Martin, sermons4kids.com.
- Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers PowerPoint Slide Masters. Henry Martin, sermons4kids.com.
- Hymns and Music:
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Luke 17:17. The Cyber Hymnal.
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
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