In Mark Chapter 1 we read: "and there doth come to him a leper, calling on him, and kneeling to him and saying to him - 'If thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me.' And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him and saith to him, 'I will; be thou cleansed' " v 40-41

" And having sternly charged him, immediately he put him forth, and saith to him, 'See thou mayest say nothing to anyone but go away. thyself shew to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing the things Moses directed, for a testimony to them.' " v44

Here in Leviticus chapters 13 and 14, we see what Moses directed, as instructed by God in order to know what to do in this situation in the community of the Israelites.

In Scripture, the spiritual meaning given to leprosy, is pride. The Holy Spirit teaches that to have pride is to oppose God, by supplanting Him in our mind with ourself. Lucifer, the angel of light, rose up against God in pride and was cast out of heaven. Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28;12-19, John 8;44.

The leper in human life endured a terrible experience of being cast out of the community, to the place outside the city which is where the unclean remaining elements from the sacrifices are cast, having to cover their head and shout 'unclean, unclean' not permitted to come near or be touched by anyone.

The leper who comes to Jesus kneels before him and asks Jesus to be willing to cleanse him for he knows Jesus is able to.

Jesus is filled with compassion and says 'I will'. He chooses to heal us, to restore us, to make us whole because he is good and he is able. Jesus is full of compassion towards us, when we come to him.

Spiritually, for all Scripture must be read with the teaching of the Holy Spirit, we can come to Jesus and in humility kneel before him and ask him to cleanse us from our self-centred, selfishness and ambition. We are in reality unclean to be like this, if we could but see it with our spiritual eyes opened.