Here is a man who does not beat around the bush about what he needs. Remember now, there was no illness regarded with the same degree of terror or any that led to such devastation as leprosy. I won't attempt to describe what leprosy does to the human body and what a person might look like after the disease had covered the body. Suffice it to say a person did not look like a human being at all. It is to this hideous mass of distorted flesh that Jesus stretches out his hand and bestows the healing touch.
Compassion has the power to heal.
It is a compassion that is more concerned with what it can give the hurting one than with being potentially contaminated. That is compassion of the highest kind. That is leadership of the noblest type. The second thing here is the leper's faith. Like all lepers in that day and time, he was outside the city, outside the community and outside the care of God, as defined by the orthodox of the day.