"DIDN'T I HEAL TEN MEN? WHERE ARE THE NINE?"
                      
                                        'One out of Ten Had Gratitude'


     As they continued onward toward Jerusalem, they reached the border between
Galilee and Samaria, and as they entered a village there, ten lepers stood at
a distance, crying out,  "Jesus, sir, have mercy on us!"

     He looked at them and said, "Go to the Jewish priest and show him that you
are healed!"   And as they were going, their leprosy disappeared.

     One of them came back to Jesus, shouting, "Glory to God, I'm healed!"  He fell
flat on the ground in front of Jesus, face downward in the dust, thanking him for
what he had done. This man was a despised Samaritan.

     Jesus asked, "Didn't I heal ten men? Where are the nine?  Does only this
foreigner return to give glory to God?"

 And Jesus said to the man,  "Stand up and go; your faith has made you well."

                                                                                      ---  Luke 17:11-19

     Yours in Christ,
     Paul N.F.