With tears the lepers answered: 'We know that thou art man like us, but yet
an holy one of God
and a prophet of the Lord; wherefore pray thou to God,
and he will heal us.
Thereupon the disciples prayed Jesus, saying: 'Lord, have mercy upon them.'
Then groaned Jesus and prayed to God, saying: 'Lord God almighty and
merciful, have mercy and hearken to the words of thy servant: and
for love
of Abraham our father and for thy holy covenant have mercy on the request
of these men, and grant them health.' Whereupon Jesus, having said this,
turned himself to the lepers and said: 'Go and show yourselves to the priests
according to the law of God.'
The lepers departed, and on the way were cleansed. Whereupon one of
them, seeing that he was healed, returned to find Jesus, and he was an
Ishmaelite. And having found Jesus he bowed himself, doing reverence unto
him, and saying: 'Verily thou art an
holy one of God,' and with thanks he
prayed him that he would receive him for servant. Jesus answered: 'Ten
have been cleansed; where are the nine?' And he said to him that was
cleansed: 'I am not come to be served, but to serve; wherefore go to thine
home, and recount how much
God hath done in thee, in order that they may
know that the promises made to Abraham and his son, with the kingdom of
God, are drawing nigh.' The cleansed leper departed, and having arrived in
his own neighborhood recounted how much
God through Jesus had
wrought in him.
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