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The Ministry of Health and Healing
among themselves, “‘We have seen strange things today!’”
Luke
5:26
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In the home of the paralytic there was great rejoicing when he
returned to his family, carrying with ease the couch upon which he
had been borne slowly from their presence only a short time before.
They gathered around with tears of joy, hardly daring to believe their
eyes. He stood before them in the full vigor of manhood. Those
arms that they had seen lifeless were quick to obey his will. The
flesh that had been pallid and shrunken was now fresh and ruddy.
He walked with a firm, free step. Joy and hope were written in every
feature of his face, and an expression of purity and peace had taken
the place of the marks of sin and suffering.
Glad thanksgiving went up from that home, and God was glo-
rified through His Son, who had restored hope to the hopeless and
strength to the stricken one. This man and his family were ready
to lay down their lives for Jesus. No doubt dimmed their faith, no
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unbelief marred their allegiance to Him who had brought light into
their darkened home.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases.”
Psalm 103:1-3.
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
“Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which
is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a
great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for
the moving of the water.”
John 5:2, 3
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At certain seasons the water of this pool was agitated, and it was
commonly believed that this was the result of supernatural power. It
also was believed that after the water was agitated the first person
who stepped into the pool would be healed of whatever disease he