In the time of Hazrat Isa ( ع ) some sick people were thrown out of their home and village. One day Hazrat Isa ( ع ) met one of them. What happened is recorded in the Blessed Injeel at Mark 1:40-45
On one day, a man who had an illness of the skin came to Hazrat Isa ( ع ). He went down on his knees in front of Jesus. The man said. ‘If you want, you can make me well again. Please do it.’
Hazrat Isa ( ع ) felt very sorry for the man. He put out his hand towards the man and he touched him. ‘I do want to help you,’ Hazrat Isa ( ع ) said, ‘Be clean again!’
Immediately, the illness left the man.
Hazrat Isa ( ع ) sent the man away immediately and he spoke to the man with strong words. ‘Listen. Do not tell anyone about this,’ Hazrat Isa ( ع ) said. ‘Instead, go and show yourself to the priest. Take a gift to him for God. Moses taught the people what gift to take to God when they are clean again after this kind of illness. This will show everyone that you are now well again.’
But instead, the man went away and he talked to everybody. He told them what had happened to him. Because he did this, it became too difficult for Hazrat Isa ( ع ) to go into the towns. Everybody knew him, and so Jesus stayed in places in the wilderness. And the people came from every direction to see him.
What did you think about this story?
- Is there something you like in the story?
- Or something in it that doesn’t seem right?
- Does this story remind you of the way people sometimes behave?
- Maybe it starts you thinking about God.
- What does this story seem to suggest you do? (I think you know that God will bless you read the teaching of Hazrat Isa ( ع ) and obey and copy him.)