The Healer
Many people think of different things when they hear the name Jesus. To some
people who hear the name Jesus maybe nothing comes to mind. Many of the common
themes that come to mind when they hear Jesus’s name are forgiveness, teacher, or
kindness. When I hear the name Jesus though I think of someone who heals, someone
who will heal you no matter your role in society. Throughout the gospel of Mark, and in
Donald Senior’s book, Jesus: A Gospel Portrait, we see several occasions when Jesus is
healing someone of lower class, or someone who was looked at as an outcast.
In Mark’s gospel there are a few different occasions in which Jesus heals
someone. When Jesus went to Capernaum he healed “a man with an unclean
spirit”(Mark 1:23) when he said “Come out of him!” (Mark 2:25). From this we see how
Jesus is not afraid to heal someone that is not completely faithful, he is willing to heal
even if someone doubts him. Another example of him healing someone who is an
outcast is when he heals a man with leprosy. “If you wish, you can make me clean.”
(Mark 1:40) begged the leper, and Jesus responded with pity and said, “I do will it. Be
made clean” (Mark 1:41). This is another prime example of Jesus healing someone that
was rejected by society. Lastly, in Mark’s gospels we see him heal a deaf man in the
district of Decapolis. The people of Decapolis “ brought to him a deaf man who had a
speech impediment” (Mark 8:32). Jesus cured him when he “put his finger into the
man’s ear and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned,
and said to him, “Ephphatha!” and the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment
was removed and he spoke plainly” (Mark 8:33-35). This is yet ...
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...hat I would have to live the life of a so called
“angel” to be able to be touched by God. This paper has definitely opened my eyes to
what one of the missions of God and Jesus really is. This paper has also rooted a new
interest in the Bible and a new view of Jesus.
In conclusion, after reading the gospel of Mark and a couple of chapters in
Donald Senior’s book, Jesus: A Gospel Portrait, I have come to realize that Jesus is a
healer. I have also come to the conclusion that, to Jesus, it doesn’t matter what your
social status or lifestyle is. There will always be a possibility of you being healed by
Jesus. I look at Jesus now as more of a people person, someone who relates to the
normal person’s life. Jesus is not someone who just teaches, forgives, and displays
kindness. He is a healer for the common person.
Christ/God, the love and kindness, or the good, that the Christian religion conveys, or the inner happiness and the peace of mind, or the reward, that the person would inevetably achieve by following the word of Christ.
sleep. Voices roared through his head; one voice persistently asked him, “Where is Jesus? Where?” And once he woke up shouting, “The bird is Jesus! The Bird is Jesus!” (381)
Many of the words that Mark uses describe how he thinks Jesus would have acted in the situation. One such word is immediately; Mark uses vocabulary that makes Jesus sound like he is in a hurry much of the time. This begins when Jesus first calls his disciples, Mark chose to use immediately twice in the story (1:17-20). Jesus’ haste can be seen in the way Mark says “immediately he called them and they left” (1:20). Mark shows that Jesus did not wait for the followers to come to him, and that his message about the reign of God had to begin. The momentum continues through the rest of Mark’s gospel. He uses this language in the story of the leper, the paralytic, and the girl restored to life and woman healed. All of these stories show that there is nothing too great for faith. That no one with faith shall wait to receive a message from God. Jesus emph...
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It is my belief as we are worshipping God healing is taking place in our very midst - healing of spirit, soul and body.