John 4:27-42; Mark 1:14-15; Matthew 4:12-17; Luke 4:14-15; John 4:43-46a; Luke 4:16-30; Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37; Mark 1:29-39; Matthew 8:14-17; Luke 4:38-44; Mark 1:40-45; Matthew 8:14; Luke 5:12-16

"Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean," [says the leper.] (Mark 1:40; Matthew 8:2; Luke 5:12) Jesus is willing, and although the Jewish Law opposes it (Leviticus 5:1-5), Jesus touches the man and heals him. From that action alone one might infer that Jesus doesn't care about the law given through Moses, but then Jesus tells the man to see a Jewish priest and to make the appropriate sacrifice, according to the Jewish Law. 

There are rules to be kept; and there are exceptions to the rules. I suppose that is why Jesus "...often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." (Luke 5:16)

Part of discernment is sensing appropriate exceptions to life's many rules. 

May God's people be blessed with the spiritual gift of discernment.