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Graphic-novel illustration of the designed Jesus touching a kneeling man with a visible skin disease outside a village.
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Mark 1:40-45

I Am Willing

The Kingdom Draws Near · Mark 1

Story guide: Jesus crosses the boundary of fear and touches the pleading man with willing compassion.

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40And a man with leprosy comes to him, pleading with him and kneeling, and saying to him, “If you are willing, you are able to make me clean.”

41And being angry, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”

42And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.

43And after sternly warning him, he immediately sent him away,

44And he says to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; rather, go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

45But after he went out, he began to proclaim widely and to spread the message, so that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but stayed outside in deserted places; and people were coming to him from everywhere.

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