He is Willing!

Immediately following the Sermon on the Mount we find the first three events recorded, involve the Lord healing a leper (our main text), a paralyzed and dreadfully tormented servant of a centurion (vs. 5-13), Peter's mother-in-law, who
was sick and with a fever (vs. 14-15), and many who were demon-possessed and sick (vs. 16-17). And so, the very clear and basic observation that we can make here (and what we can often see throughout the ministry of Jesus, in general), is that, these very important teachings of 1 of 9 Jesus (which He had just declared that, the one who hears and does them is the one who is truly
wise and blessed) are thoroughly surrounded by miraculous healings, which were meant to be signs that would authenticate and affirm the teachings themselves. In other words, the miraculous healings were God the Father's way of authenticating the teaching ministry of Jesus,
so as to drive all to give diligent heed to all that our Lord taught. To this end, both the Jews that
witnessed the miracles firsthand, and the Jews who witnessed the miracles by way of reading
Matthew's Gospel, and all of us (for that matter), who witness the miracles through Matthew's
Gospel, are primarily meant to see the signs as "signs," which are to bring our focus not upon the
signs themselves (which sadly, so many people do today), but to that which the signs are meant
to point, namely, the teachings of our Lord.