“God would have us sharers in his bliss—in the very truth of existence…”
Now that is Good News to be thankful for indeed!

“What is a prophet without honor?” such ask, nor understand the answer, “A man the more likely to prove a prophet...” 

[The Lord] had wanted to give the man something so much better than a pure skin, and had only roused in him an unseemly delight in his own cleanness...

Jesus had cured the leper—not with his word only, which would have been enough for the mere cure, but was not enough without the touch of his hand to satisfy the heart of Jesus—a touch defiling him, in the notion of the Jews, but how cleansing to the sense of the leper! 

The anger of a good man is a very different thing from the anger of a bad man; the displeasure of Jesus must be a very different thing from the displeasure of a tyrant. But they are both anger, both displeasure, nevertheless...