Jesus heals but everyone He healed ultimately died (or at least I think so because we don't have 2000 year old people walking around) so the question is what was the purpose behind Him healing people?
Matthew 8:17 has one reason
"He did these things to bring about what Isaiah the prophet had said:
“He took our suffering on him and carried our diseases.”
and John 9 has another one:
"As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"3Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.…
John 5
Jesus didn't heal everyone at the healing pool and He didn't automatically heal the guy He approached. He asked him if he wanted to be healed and the guy gave him all the excuses as to why he couldn't be healed. Do you think that more healing would take place if people looked beyond all the excuses to possibilities?
It reminds me of a story
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