19 Bible Verses on Healing Sickness, and How Differently Jesus Did It Each Time

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Résumé

  • No two healings in the Gospels are done the same way: touch, word, mud, distance, a question first, and once a wait until sunset.
  • Luke records that Jesus laid hands on every one of a townful of sick people individually; Matthew describes the same evening as done with a word.
  • Jesus rejects both options when the disciples ask whose sin caused a man’s blindness.
  • The only instruction attached to being sent out to heal is that it must not be charged for.
  • Matthew applies Isaiah 53 to physical illness and Peter applies it to sin; both readings are inside Scripture.

No two healings in the Gospels are done the same way. He touches some people and speaks to others from a distance. He makes mud with spit for one blind man and says nothing at all to another. He asks a question first more often than we remember, and in one town he waits until sunset because the crowd will not carry their sick until the sabbath has ended. There is no technique in any of it, which is the…

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Bibliographie (cliquer pour afficher)

Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Matthew’s summary statements are at 4:23, 9:35 and 15:30-31.

The mud made with spit is at John 9:6; the question put to Bartimaeus is at Mark 10:51, and to the man at the pool at John 5:6.

The law on a woman with a discharge of blood is at Leviticus 15:25-27. The interrupted procession is at Mark 5:21-33.

The few healed at Nazareth are at Mark 6:5-6.

Mark’s condition about forgiving is at Mark 11:25. The fig tree is at Matthew 21:18-21.

Matthew applies Isaiah 53:4 to illness at Matthew 8:17; Peter applies Isaiah 53:5 to sin at 1 Peter 2:24.

The bitter water at Marah, where the title is given, is at Exodus 15:22-25.

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