Charles here
Charles here.
So Laelia and I have been reading in Matthew about Jesus healing the paralytics. (Incidentally, I’m so thankful we had our daughter in today’s day and age, in this country. 2,000 years ago (or in many countries today) we would be sure she would never walk, and she would be begging by the side of the road.) Anyway, it seems to me that Jesus didn’t heal these people just to heal them; he did so as a validation of His own divinity. (In one of the cases, He states specifically that He is healing this person so that people would know Jesus had the authority to forgive sins.)
Still, it’s pretty cool that Jesus used healing as His preferred miracle. He could have melted the flesh off the face of anyone who doubted Him, or just summoned rock music to follow Him around wherever He went. It’s comforting to know that when Jesus wanted to prove His divinity, He did some good at the same time.
