Mark tells THE (Real Ruler's) "Good-News". Chapter 1 [Pericope 11]

Pericope 11 - Jesus' motivation & capacity in cleansing & interpreting Torah:  "touch no unclean thing*"

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There comes to him a leper, desperately
imploring him on knees (in dirt), saying
"If you are willing, you've capacity

to heal me (you could be my own way in

 

to life & health, community, again).”
So moved with strong compassion, stretching out
his hand to touch the man, he says to him:
“Oh, I am willing, now be clean.” About

then, - straightaway-  his leprosy got lost,

and he was clean (and free). And straightaway

when having sternly warned him, (really bossed),

he said to him to see he didn't say
 

a thing to anyone, but go and show

yourself to priest, and make the offering 

for cleansing, which is set down as the go,

by Moses, to bear witness to this thing.
 

But having gone out, he began to preach

a lot, and spread about the message so

that Jesus could not go (thus, nor could  teach)

in towns with open access, only go
 

out to deserted places, yet folk came

out to him from all 'round about the place. 

(So in one way they swapped, and that's a shame;

in other ways already that's his space.) 
 

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0Καὶ ἔρχεται πρὸς αὐτὸν λεπρὸς παρακαλῶν αὐτὸν [καὶ γονυπετῶν] καὶ λέγων αὐτῷ ὅτι ἐὰν θέλῃς δύνασαί με καθαρίσαι. 41καὶ σπλαγχνισθεὶς ἐκτείνας τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἥψατο καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· θέλω, καθαρίσθητι· 42καὶ εὐθὺς ἀπῆλθεν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα, καὶ ἐκαθαρίσθη. 43καὶ ἐμβριμησάμενος αὐτῷ εὐθὺς ἐξέβαλεν αὐτὸν 44καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· ὅρα μηδενὶ μηδὲν εἴπῃς, ἀλλ’ ὕπαγε σεαυτὸν δεῖξον τῷ ἱερεῖ καὶ προσένεγκε περὶ τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ σου ἃ προσέταξεν Μωϋσῆς, εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς. 45Ὁ δὲ ἐξελθὼν ἤρξατο κηρύσσειν πολλὰ καὶ διαφημίζειν τὸν λόγον, ὥστε μηκέτι αὐτὸν δύνασθαι φανερῶς εἰς πόλιν εἰσελθεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἔξω ἐπ’ ἐρήμοις τόποις ἦν· καὶ ἤρχοντο πρὸς αὐτὸν πάντοθεν. Mark 1:39-45  NA28
*   Exodus 15:26; Lev 15:31; Isa 52:11; Ezek 20:34,41

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