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19 Bible Verses for Healing the Sick, and How Differently Jesus Healed

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Summary

  • Jesus healed in different ways: by touch, by a word, with mud, from a distance, and sometimes after asking a question first.
  • 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 instruction to those sent out to heal came with a rule: “You received without paying; give without pay” (Matthew 10:8).
  • Matthew applies Isaiah 53 to physical illness and Peter applies it to sin; both readings are inside Scripture.

The Bible records many healings and many prayers for healing, and it gives no single method: Jesus healed in different ways, and not every prayer for healing was granted. He touched some people and spoke to others from a distance. He made mud for one blind man (John 9:6) and asked another what he wanted (Mark 10:51). In Capernaum the crowd waited until sunset, most likely for the sabbath to end, before bringing their sick to him (Luke 4:40). Paul,…

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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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