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



  • 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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