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Podcast: Bible Study - Sabbath School Podcast
Episode: Episode 2088 Lesson 2 Thursday July 11- Can you keep a secret?
Description: Read Mark 1:40–45. What does this teach us about Jesus and how He related to the marginalized in society?Leprosy as described in this passage, and throughout the Old Testament as well, did not refer only to what is known today as Hansen’s disease (bona fide leprosy). The biblical terminology would be better translated as a “dreaded skin disease” and could include other epidermic ailments, as well. Hansen’s disease may have come to the ancient Near East about the third century B.C. (see David P. Wright and Richard N. Jones, “Leprosy,” The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 4 [New York: Doubleday, 199...