ISB ~ Luke 5 v12

leprosy:An infectious skin disease that was damaging at several levels. (1) Physically, the disease could be painful and sometimes fatal. (2) Socially, the Law required lepers to be quarantined outside of Israelite society (Lev 13:45-46). (3) Religiously, lepers were ritually unclean and thus unable to participate in worship (Lev 13:3, 8). The combined weight of these burdens was extreme, and nothing would be more welcome than healing and cleansing.