POST #131:
The Greek word "σεσωκεν" is "sesoken," not "sozo," and "sozo" (saved) is
the Greek word meaning "whole," which is "to make or keep sound or safe."
No, σεσωκεν most single translated word would be "save" click here
σεσωκεν
Also maybe a quote from Young's Literal Translation would help :
Luke 17:19 (YLT)
19 and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath
saved thee.'
Jesus and the Jews were born, lived and died under the Law and its curse (Gal 3:10).
How do you know if the 10 lepers died before the death of the testator? how do you know they died under the Mosaic Law and not the Law of Christ?
The Gospel of salvation by grace through faith (Eph 2:8-9) was not proclaimed until after his death
when God's justice on the guilt of his people was thereby propitiated (Ro 3:25).
All ten lepers were cured on their way to see the priest, before they had accomplished
any work of obedience.
Jesus told them to show themselves to the priest because the Law required that the priest must declare lepers clean before they could return to the camp.
That the lepers set out for the priest before they were even healed demonstrates their faith.
That they were healed before the work of reporting to the priest demonstrates that their faith alone
was the means of their healing.
Indeed it was Christians Paul was talking to in Ephesus, By the Grace of God, through faith in His Son we are (they were) saved, so if we (like the one leper) obey Jesus the Christ and "all he commands" Matt 28:20 and give Glory to God, we (like the one leper) will be saved. and as Paul points out in Eph 2:8-9 not by following the Law (as did the 9 lepers).
This miracle was not about their personal salvation, it was about their healing as a sign.
All Jesus' miracles were signs, showing the nature of the kingdom
(Jn 2:11, 23, 3:2, 4:48, 6:2, 14, 26, 30; 12:37, 20:30).
signs were only to show the Gospel and its deliverer to be of God by His power.
This sign shows that in the kingdom the order is faith-->salvation-->obedience (works).
Please provide a book chapter verse for the order above, it is not in any of the verses you have shown, your missing some steps,
Hear (righteous work) produces faith. Rom 10:17
Believe Heb 11:6
Repent Acts 3:19
Confess Romans 10:9-10
be baptized Mark 16:16
be faithful until death Rev 2:10
So, Hear-->faith-->obey-->saved
The Samaritan did not go to the priest, but returned to Jesus upon his healing in the way.
The Samaritan was not part of the Jewish community, and was not required to report to a priest.
He is a sign of salvation to the Gentiles because the Jews did not receive Jesus as the One whom God sent.
The Jewish lepers who did not return to give thanks suggest a sign of the transient
non-saving faith of Lk 8:13.
The 9 lepers were not saved, they had their leprosy cured.
Faith alone made all 10 lepers whole, as a sign that in the kingdom faith alone saves.
All 10 lepers had faith or they would not have left to go to the priests, note that Jesus also instructed the Samaritan to do the same thing as the other 9, they all had "faith that Jesus would cleanse/cure them", but "faith alone" did not save them, the 1 Samaritan came back to "Glorify God" (a righteous work) and was
σεσωκεν "saved"