St Bede's Episcopal Church, Santa Fe, NM

February 12, 2012
Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany

Mark 1:40-45

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you
can make me clean." Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him,
and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean!" Immediately the leprosy left him, and
he was made clean.

After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, "See that you say
nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing
what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." But he went out and began to
proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town
openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.