O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
The reading from Hebrews presents Jesus as the High Priest who suffers in every way. He suffers in order to free those who are suffering. He undergoes death in order to destroy the power of death. Unlike the High Priest of the Old Testament, he becomes one like the people he came to redeem.
The gospel story of today shows how Jesus, with compassion and love, reaches out to a leper, a person who had no status and rights in the society, by stretching out his hand and touching him. We thus have a High Priest who sympathizes with us in every way and understands our sufferings and struggles and brings us healing and salvation through his suffering and death.
“Unless you are deliberately kind to every creature, you will often to cruel to many.” – John Ruskin
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