The Chosen – Lesson 5 – Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy
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Watch and Discuss:

Watch a video clip from Season 1, episode 6: (Based on Luke chapter 5, verses 12–15 in the Bible). As you watch, take notes and be prepared to answer the following questions:

  1. How many people were walking along the road with Jesus?
  2. Describe the landscape.
  3. What was Jesus carrying on His back?
  4. Who suddenly screamed? Why?
  5. What did John point at the sick man they met?
  6. What did the Egyptian lady drop?
  7. What did they give the man before they left?

Listening Practice:

Watch the video clip again and fill in the missing words from the box on the right:


John: You were speaking ?

Jesus: Yes. I lived there when I was a boy.

Mary Magdalene: Why were you ?

Jesus: We had to leave Bethlehem when I was years old because of Herod. He...

Man: You lived in Bethlehem during the of the innocents?

Jesus: I did.

Man: I know this story. Herod had every in the area under the age of two killed.

Jesus: Yes; it was very sad. Not to this beautiful day or anything, huh? Come on.

John: It's a ! Stay back!

Little James: Cover your mouths! Don't his air!

John: Don't come any closer.

Jesus: It’s okay, John. It’s okay.

Leper: Please, please. Please don’t turn away from me.

Jesus: I won’t.

Leper: Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean. Only if You want to; I to You. My sister, she was a servant at the wedding; she told me what You can do. I know You can me if You are willing.

Jesus: I am . Be cleansed.

Leper: Thank you. Thank you. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. What can I... what can I ever do...

Jesus: No. Do not say anything to anyone.

Leper: You don't seek Your own ?

Jesus: Please just do Me this one thing.

Leper: But what do I tell people?

Jesus: Go and show yourself to the priest. Let him you to see that you are . Make the proper in the temple, as Moses commanded, and go on your way. Who has an extra ? Just one of you, just one of you. That's enough. Green's definitely your color. Not too .

Vocabulary Exercises:

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

  1. heal
  2. inspect
  3. leper
  4. massacre
  5. shabby
  6. spoil
  7. tunic
  8. willing
  • a. Worn out clothing, not clean, scruffy
  • b. Ready to do something
  • c. A loose sack-like garment tied at the waist
  • d. To make imperfect or bad, ruin
  • e. To look at something closely
  • f. A person who has leprosy, a disease that destroys skin and nerves
  • g. The brutal killing of many people or animals
  • h. To restore someone’s health, to cure

Completion Exercise:

Complete these sentences with words from the exercise above: (Hint: you may need to change the form of some words)

  1. Even after thousands of years, are still fashionable.
  2. You the paint by touching it when it was wet.
  3. In the past, were isolated from other people.
  4. Tony is to help us paint the kitchen.
  5. Car makers carefully their cars to make sure they are safe.
  6. After the accident, the passenger’s injuries slowly .
  7. The of the American buffalo almost wiped them all out.
  8. Mike looked in his old clothes and dirty boots.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What two places did Jesus live in when He was a child?
  2. What cruel thing had King Herod done in Bethlehem?
  3. What were common ideas about the disease leprosy in those days?
  4. Who told the sick man about Jesus?
  5. Why do you think Jesus told the man not to tell anyone about Jesus healing him?
  6. What else did Jesus tell the man to do? Why do you think He told him to do these things?
  7. What does this story show us about Jesus?
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