Jesus commands our thankfulness. Here's why.
One day Jesus encountered thanklessness while traversing what Puritan commentator Matthew Henry calls "the frontier-country, the marches that lay between Samaria and Galilee." The story is found in Luke 17.
Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
Jesus is called aside by the plaintive shouts of men afflicted
with a serious skin condition that present-day translators render as
leprosy. Surely, they must have thought, if Jesus could cure the blind,
heal the lame, and raise the dead, he had the power to help them too. They were
already outcasts and had nothing to lose, so they raised their voices in
desperate hope.
When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests."Read more
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