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• Matthew 8

  Matthew 8 recounts how Jesus, after coming down from the mountain where he delivered the Sermon on the Mount, heals a leper, a centurion's servant, and Peter's mother-in-law, calms a storm, and casts out demons in the country of the Gadarenes.

• Luke 5

  Luke 5 is the chapter in which Jesus calls Simon Peter, James, and John as disciples by the lake of Gennesaret, heals a leper and a paralytic, calls Levi the tax collector, and then answers a question about fasting.

• Matthew 8:16–17

  A passage that interprets Jesus' evening healing of the demon-possessed and the sick as the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4. It is frequently cited in discussions of whether healing is included in Christ's atonement.

• Franciscans

  The Franciscans are a Catholic mendicant order (an order whose members live without property, preaching and begging for their food), founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. Its official name is the Order of Friars Minor, and it emphasizes radical poverty and brotherhood.

• Simon the Leper

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• The Ten Lepers

  An account in which Jesus heals ten lepers on his way to Jerusalem, but only one of them, a Samaritan, returns to give thanks. It appears only in Luke 17:11-19.

• Choi Heung-jong

  Choi Heung-jong (崔興宗, 1880–1966) was a Presbyterian minister and independence activist from Gwangju, Korea. Because he devoted his life to caring for people with Hansen's disease (leprosy), beggars, and tuberculosis patients, he was called "the father of beggars and lepers." His pen name was Obang (五放).

• Luke 17

  Luke 17 is a chapter in which Jesus, on the way to Jerusalem, teaches about forgiveness, faith, and the attitude of a servant; heals ten lepers; and speaks about the kingdom of God and the day of the Son of Man.

• Naaman

  Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram described in 2 Kings 5. Afflicted with leprosy, he was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan River as the prophet Elisha instructed. Jesus refers to him in Luke 4:27.

• Leprosy

  Leprosy (Korean *nabyeong*) is the term the New Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Gaejeong) uses for an "unclean" disease of the skin and for blemishes on garments and houses. Leviticus sets out the regulations for its diagnosis and for purification. Leprosy also figures in the accounts of Miriam, Naaman, and Uzziah and in the healing narratives of Jesus.

• Alabaster Box

  An alabaster box (Korean okhap, 玉盒) is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. The term is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• Anointing at Bethany

  The anointing at Bethany is the event in which a woman poured costly ointment on Jesus in Bethany, near Jerusalem, a few days before his crucifixion. Jesus said that she had prepared beforehand for his burial.

• Spikenard

  Spikenard, or nard, is a costly aromatic ointment made from a plant of the Himalayan region. It is best known as the ointment a woman of Bethany poured on Jesus, and it also appears in the Song of Solomon, where the KJV renders it "spikenard."

• Numbers 5

  Numbers 5 contains the ordinance for putting the unclean out of the camp, the ordinance for confessing and making restitution for wrongs done to another person, and the "law of jealousy," a procedure carried out before the priest when a husband suspects his wife of adultery.

• Leviticus 14

  Leviticus 14 sets out the ritual for cleansing a person healed of leprosy (a serious skin disease) and restoring that person to the community, together with the regulations for inspecting and dealing with a plague that appears in a house.

• Wiley Forsythe

  Wiley Hamilton Forsythe (1873–1918) was a medical missionary sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church); his Korean name was Bo Wi-ryeom. In 1909 he brought a woman with leprosy whom he had found collapsed by the roadside to Gwangju, an act widely regarded as the beginning of ministry to people with Hansen's disease in the Gwangju region.

• Gehazi

  Gehazi is the servant of the prophet Elisha in 2 Kings. He is known for lying to obtain the gifts that Naaman, the captain of the Syrian army, had intended for Elisha, and for being struck with leprosy as a result.

• Hyssop

  Hyssop is a plant used in Old Testament purification rites to sprinkle blood or water. It appears in connection with the Passover, the rite for cleansing from leprosy, Psalm 51, and the crucifixion scene in the Gospel of John.

• Rimmon

  Rimmon is the name of a god worshiped in Damascus, the capital of Aram. The name appears in 2 Kings 5, where Naaman, the Aramean commander who had been healed of leprosy, asks forgiveness in advance for entering the house of Rimmon when he accompanies his king there.

• Uzziah

  Uzziah was an eighth-century BC king of the southern kingdom of Judah who is called Azariah in 2 Kings. He had a long reign and strengthened the nation, but when he attempted to burn incense in the temple he was struck with leprosy and lived in isolation until his death.