Heals The Leper Script

McMurphy does the same. One of the patients on the ward, known as Chief hid from everyone the fact that he could hear and speak. McMurphy was the one that encouraged Chief to speak for the first time after so many years of silence, when he said, “Thank-you” (Kesey, 1962, p.217). This ultimately healed Chief of his illness. McMurphy’s actions parallel the miracles performed by Jesus.

The author Langston Hughes reminisces about when his Aunt took him to church when he was thirteen years old; ‘Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing praying, shouting, and some very hard sinners had been brought to Jesus’(1059). At the end of revival the children were asked to approach the ‘mourners’ bench ‘To be saved!’ Langston’s Aunt told him about how when you were saved ‘something happened to you inside.’ (1059) So Mr. Hughes went to the bench with the fellow children in the church, the preacher preached, hymns were sung they keep saying ‘wont’ you come, Young lambs to Jesus?’ One by one the children rose to Jesus. Leaving Langston Hughes and another boy Westley; the boy Westley got tired of sitting on the bench he stood up to be saved. Langston Hughes sat there waiting for Jesus he too grew tired of sitting on the bench and he figured that Jesus didn’t smite Westley for lying; so he stood up.

Summary: A bunch of friends drop a paralyzed man through a roof and into a room where Jesus is teaching. Jesus does not immediately heal the paralyzed man, but he does forgive his sins. After stirring up quite a scene Jesus asked a tough question, “is it easier for me to say, “Your sins are forgiven,” or “get up and walk”?”

“I thought about telling everyone in town to stop their sinning, or drown and die. But they would not believe me. How could I preach to the whole town, I was only a boy.” (BMU 119)

A woman approached them and asked them if they knew Jesus. She started preaching to them and during that moment they began defending their lack of faith. After each of them rejected what she was saying, she changed her

"If you say you're the king of the Jews, then why don't you pick up this cross and ask your 'father' to help you. Oh well, with or without his help you'll get this cross and take it." Without any words, this man picks me up and starts walking down the treacherous and painful roads. With every step I can feel his body growing weaker and weaker. His blood is soaked into my body now, all I can taste is

Dr. Clark preached God forbid if you and I ever get in the way of anyone trying to see Jesus, God forbid by our conversation or life should ever pose a problem to see Jesus. We want to be the kind of Christian that people could see the master in us. The unsaved should not have a problem seeing Jesus in our life. But Zacchaeus had a problem seeing Jesus so, Jesus came to where he was, Dr. Clark preached that Jesus doesn’t require us to get better before seeing him; he carries us to where we should be. Jesus looked up to Zacchaeus and said come down I must abide at your

Dr. Childers sermon is a continuation of a lectionary cycle from the book of Luke. She opens her sermon with a sad goodbye to Luke and the stories of the prodigal son, good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Her audience consisted, mostly of 40 Caucasian senior citizens. Her biblical narrative is extracted from Luke 13 and pertains to the woman that was crippled for eighteen years. To introduce her sermon entitled “Softly and Tenderly” she asks several questions

As the boys were celebrating the new slur they realized that Jesus was a Jew. They figured it shouldn’t be said, but they say continued to say it. He gets reprimanded by his mother and she tells him to send his friends on their way, pointless however because they all scattered.

They demanded to know where the man who healed me was. I looked around, and the man whose name I understood was Jesus, was nowhere to be found. The crowd

Matthew 8:2-3 says, “A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, ‘Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.’ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be clean!’” By the teenagers choosing to have surgery rather than living a life with the bodies that God has given them, they end up living a life trapped in the city.

John had heard of numerous bank robberies while watching TV and thought that it was peculiar. That night once John went to sleep, he had a dream of Jésus coming to him as well as saying, “You will be freed from your sins tomorrow, stay patient my son.” The next night once all of the prisoners were fast asleep, the alarm began to blare. This almost immediately woke John up along with the panic it caused among officers. The officer Sam Shmam was standing in front of John’s cell panicking when suddenly Jésus lunged out of nowhere and knocked him out. After this Jésus unlocked John’s cell and let him out. In astonishment, John exclaimed, “I believed you were a prophet, not a criminal! No decent man would do such an atrocious act!” Jésus then said “I am no profit you buffoon, I did all this to reach you John, I want you to help me rob banks around the nation so we will be rich my friend!” John concluded that being an honorable man has done nothing for him and perhaps he should rebound to his life of crime. “Let us leave my friend.”, Jésus

This is particularly important in demonstrating the leper’s piety. The leper has an absolute belief in Jesus’ power because he says that if Jesus “will[s]” for him to be clean then it will happen (Mk 1:40). At no point does the leper question Jesus’ ability to cleanse him. Similarly, his request is extremely sincere and he does not suggest that he will hold anything against Jesus if Jesus fails to grant him his appeal. Rather, the leper insinuates that he is willing to continue to live with his leprosy and has such a deep belief in Jesus that he gives Jesus complete freedom in his decision to cleanse

Jesus' responds in a compassionate way and the woman's healing is a moment of great joy and glory: "She stood up straight and began praising God." This is a miracle being performed by Jesus and special moment for the woman being set “free” from misery.

“Two blind men... shouted, ‘Lord, have mercy on us!’ ... Jesus stopped and called them. ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’ He asked.” Matthew 20:30-32