Uzdrowienie trędowatego (Mk 1,40-45). Symbolika gestu Jezusa

Abstract

Mark recounts this story of Jesus healing a leper in order to provide an additional example of who Jesus is and the greatness of his power. In Judaism, healing a leper was viewed as being on a different level than other kinds of healing. It was an eschatological healing on the same level as raising the dead, and as a result, paralleled the arrival of the kingdom of God. That Mark assumed that his gentile readers would have announcement of the kingdom’s arrival in 1:15 is quite likely. What is clear is that in recounting this story, Mark once again portrays Jesus as a worker of miracles who does what others cannot do and who thus generates a tremendous response of awe and wonder throughout all of Galilee. Even despite commands of silence, the greatness of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cannot be hidden. The leper simply cannot help but preach the word concerning Jesus.