Emphasis Preaching Journal
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Mark charged the leper to keep his healing a secret because he did not want Jesus to be understood merely as a miracle worker. Leprosy, like the "great burden" in the illustration that follows, was an image of sin, and Mark was pointing beyond this particular incident to the supreme miracle of the cross: its power to cleanse from sin.
Mark charged the leper to keep his healing a secret because he did not want Jesus to be understood merely as a miracle worker. Leprosy, like the "great burden" in the illustration that follows, was an image of sin, and Mark was pointing beyond this particular incident to the supreme miracle of the cross: its power to cleanse from sin.
