Lectionary Q is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week's text is from Luke 17:11-19.
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Here are the questions for this week’s passage:
Why didn’t Jesus heal the lepers on the spot, but instead told them to show themselves to the priest?
What do you think happened to the other nine lepers? Why didn’t they return to Jesus?
What is the main hook of this story? Was it that one man came back to say thanks? Or was it that this man was a Samaritan?
When Jesus responds by calling the Samaritan a “foreigner” what do you think is being implied?
Do you think the other nine were not grateful?
When Jesus says the man’s faith has healed him, what healed the other men’s bodies? Also, there is some indication the phrase “has made you well” is in the perfect tense meaning it is a one-time action that makes an impact into the future. If the Samaritan understood that, how would that make him feel?
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