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Encounters with Jesus: The Rest of Those Stories restores Jesus’ compelling encounters with people back into their Middle Eastern context. The book contextually restores twelve “familiar” Lukan passages—return to Nazareth, Simon, the leper, the paralytic, calling of Levi, the demoniac, Jairus, the bleeding woman, and more—in an engaging narrative story-telling format. In doing so, paradigm...

very effective way to spread the Good News to desperate people! As this leper and Jesus approach each other, the leper prostrates himself before Jesus. That is what Simon Peter also did in the preceding encounter after the great catch of fish, seemingly a sign of recognizing deity. Does this leper recognize the deity in Jesus? Not sure. But one thing is sure, he would never pass an Apostles’ Creed or Nicene Creed exam. Like everyone who comes to Jesus in the Gospels, he does not
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