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From the Come Follow Me manual for Sunday School, Families, and Individuals – this review covers the lesson plan for Matthew chapters 8 and 9.  Also, Mark chapters 2 through 5.

In the previous lesson we concluded the Savior’s Sermon on the Mount.  The Master now continues His ministry and teaching in Galilee.  The manual makes a great point in today’s study by stating: “It’s hard to read the New Testament without being impressed by the many accounts of the Savior’s healing the sick and afflicted – everyone from a woman with a fever to a girl who had been pronounced dead.  What messages might there be for us in these miracles of physical healing?  Certainly, one obvious message is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, with power over all things.  Including our physical pains and imperfections.  But another meaning found in His words to the skeptical scribes: ‘That ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (Mark 2:10).’  So, when you read about a blind person or a leper being healed, you might think of the healing – both spiritual and physical – that you can receive from the Savior and hear Him say to you, ‘Thy faith hath made thee, whole (Mark 5:34)’.” 

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Matthew 8:2-3 “And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou can’t make me clean.  And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.  And immediately his leprosy was cleaned.”  This loathsome disease is a perfect picture of the filthiness and de