In Leviticus (that’s the third book in the Bible) we find a list of laws that tell God’s people what is clean and unclean. Just like sinful people couldn’t perfectly reflect a holy God, neither could unclean people. So, this very important list of rules included what is clean or unclean, who might be clean or unclean, and how to get clean if you are unclean. For example, Israel could eat lamb. That animal was clean. But not pigs. That animal was unclean. Other animals like bats and rats, lizards and vultures, wasps and hornets were also considered unclean. (Don’t eat hornets, especially when they are still alive!) To touch a dead body made someone unclean. A woman was unclean after she gave birth. And if someone was unclean, they had to wash themselves. In the days of Jesus (and the days of Leviticus too) the most unclean person was a leper. A leper was not someone who looked like a leopard (the spotted cat), but someone who had an itchy, scratchy, sore, ugly skin disease that wouldn’t go away. To keep other people from getting the terrible disease, lepers were to shout “Unclean, unclean” if they were coming close to people. Today’s story is about how an unclean leper gets clean.