What does Luke 17:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Their common misery drew these poor outcasts together and made them forget the fierce national antipathies of Jew and Samaritan. When bidden to go to the priest, before there were any outward signs of healing, they started, and thus gave evidence of their faith that they were healed. It was this faith that saved them, because faith like this lets in the whole tide of God's saving health. In the case of the poor alien, it was clear that he was not only healed, but saved, as his gratitude and worship indicated. Do we thank God, not only for His miracles, but for His daily providence?

The best things are stillest. The deepest work of God, in the individual and in the community, does not reveal itself to the newspaper reporter, but steals on the world like Spring through garden and woodland. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 17

¹  Jesus teaches to avoid occasions of offense;
³  and to forgive one another
⁵  The power of faith
⁶  How we are bound to God
¹¹  Jesus heals ten lepers
²²  Of the kingdom of God, and the coming of the Son of Man