Ten Lepers Healed

 

Luke 17:11-19 - Ten Lepers Healed

Luke 17: 15 - And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God. And he fell on his face at His feet giving thanks.
Luke 17:17 - And Jesus answering said, "Were there not ten cleansed?  But where are the nine?
Luke 17:19 - And He said unto him, "Arise, go thy way. Thy faith has made thee whole"
The Greek word for whole here is Soso - meaning to keep safe and rescue from danger or destruction  (Hell). When Jesus walked the Earth he healed many people of all kinds of physical ailments. But His desire, and the desire of the Father who sent Him, was to do so much more than that. 
As God in a human body, Jesus met the physical needs of the people. to prepare their hearts for the great work of salvation and healing needed in their souls that, through his sacrifice on the cross, he yearned so much to give them - and us. 
Ten lepers were physically healed, but only one was made whole(Spirit, soul and body) . Why?  Because with gratitude in his heart, he turned back to thank God - and he worshiped.

For are we not all like these lepers in our souls; alienated from our loving Creator, through the terrible disease of sin? The One who made a leper completely whole is the same One who is able to completely heal the hearts and souls of every person who will come to Him with a humble heart, believing that he is able.

John 5:2-9
Meanwhile at the Bethesda Pool:.....Jesus asks a paralytic a paramount question: "Do you want to be whole? 

Read John 5:1-14...Was this man caught up in some kind of ongoing sin? ...How? He had been in a paralyzed state, sitting in the SAME PLACE for 38 years. 

It seems more likely that his sin was a sin of the heart: Unbelief, leading to murmuring and complaining, leading to bitterness and self pity: "Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to pick me up and put me into the pool: but while I am coming another steps down before me." This man's sickness was one of the heart, and Jesus knew that. We already know, from the ten leapers how Jesus often works...healing the outside so He could reach the inside. On the outside Jesus can make us well, but only from the inside can He make us whole.