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| Background: This story may me an early version of the story of the ten lepers. However the point is quite different. In this version the leper, far from not thanking Jesus, goes about the land and expresses his gratitude to all who would listen. The passage is made even more opaque by Mark’s literary device of the “Messianic Secret” –he builds his gospel around the structure that Jesus was trying to keep who he was a secret, which doesn’t seem to be any more than a narrative form. Surely, however, Jesus did not want to be known as the kind of military messiah that so many people in his time wanted and expected. |
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Story: Once a
senior in high school helped a freshman study for a test. Can you imagine anything more
weird? A senior wasting time on a freshman? But the help worked and the freshman earned an
A, a badly needed A, in the test. Now don’t tell anyone, please, the senior said.
They’ll think I’m like totally weird for helping a punk like you and then every
punk in school will want me to help them. Well, the freshman shot off his big mouth, like
freshman always do. The other seniors laughed at the one who had helped him, but secretly
thought it was kind of cool. And sure enough mobs of freshmen descended on our poor hero
demanding help. Well, she said, I guess I have myself to blame. I knew this would happen.
Now I have to help tons of them. They ought to put be on the faculty payroll. To tell the
truth, however, she liked to help.
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