Showing posts with label Context - hatred. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Context - hatred. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

THE DUMB, BLIND and POSSESSED MAN - Year Two - c AD28-29

(Matthew 12:22-23; Luke 11:14)
 
Matthew 12:22-23 - Then (after healing the man with the shrivelled hand, and many others) a devil-possessed man who could neither see nor speak was brought to Jesus. He healed him, so that the dumb man could both speak and see. At this the whole crowd went wild with excitement, and people kept saying, "Can this be the Son of David?" (.... Jesus is then accused by the Pharisees of using the power of the devil.)
Luke 11:14 - Another time (in Luke's account, after teaching the Lord's Prayer and about how God answers prayer), Jesus was expelling an evil spirit which was preventing a man from speaking, and as soon as the evil spirit left him, the dumb man found his speech, to the amazement of the crowds. (Jesus now faces the same accusations as in Matthew's Gospel about being in league with the devil.)

THE CRIPPLED WOMAN The Last Months - c AD29-30

The Last Months - c AD29-30

- This miracle probably took place in Perea, from where Jesus travelled to Bethany in Judea to raise Lazarus from the dead:

Luke 13:10-17 - It happened (sometime after Jesus told the parable of the unfruitful fig-tree) that he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. In the congregation was a woman who for eighteen years had been ill from some psychological cause; she was bent double and was quite unable to straighten herself up. When Jesus noticed her, he called her and said, "You are set free from your illness!"
And he put his hands upon her, and at once she stood upright and praised God. But the president of the synagogue, in his annoyance at Jesus' healing on the Sabbath, announced to the congregation, "There are six days in which men may work. Come on one of them and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
But the Lord answered him, saying, "You hypocrites, every single one of you unties his ox or his ass from the stall on the Sabbath day and leads him away to water! This woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom you all know Satan has kept bound for eighteen years - surely she should be released from such bonds on the Sabbath day!"
These words reduced his opponents to shame, but the crowd was thrilled at all the glorious things he did.

HEALING THE SEVERED EAR OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT - The Last Week in Jerusalem - Spring c AD30

Luke 22:49-51 - And the disciples, seeing what was going to happen (... Jesus was about to be arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane), cried, "Lord, shall we use our swords?"
And one of them did slash at the High Priest's servant (Malchus as reported in John 18:10), cutting off his right ear. But Jesus retorted, "That will do!"
And he touched his ear and healed him.