Scripture for Sunday: Healing

The Scripture for Sunday evening is the story of Jesus healing the leper. What does this scripture teach us about Jesus as a healer? How is healing a spiritual discipline, and how are we called to do the same? Mark 1:40-41

A leper came to him begging him, and kneelinghe said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately the leprosy ^*434445 left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus ^* could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.