{"id":8864,"date":"2022-08-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"4-healings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8864","title":{"rendered":"4 HEALINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have often heard that the Gospel according to John is quite different from the other three gospels. In fact, scholars refer to Matthew, Mark and Luke as the &#8220;Synoptic Gospels&#8221; &#8211; the term &#8220;synoptic&#8221; employing the Greek <i>syn <\/i>meaning &#8220;together&#8221; and <i>opt<\/i> &#8220;to see&#8221;. Matthew, Mark, and Luke share a &#8220;common view&#8221; of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although in some places John&#8217;s Gospel does share common ground with the Synoptics, he often skips over their stories and relates his own, not found elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is obvious in the accounts of the <b>healings <\/b>Jesus performed.\u00a0The Synoptic Gospels tell of many miraculous physical healings:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>A man with leprosy<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The Roman centurion&#8217;s servant<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Peter\u2019s mother-in-law<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A paralyzed man lowered through the ceiling<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A Canaanite woman&#8217;s daughter<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A boy with a demon<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A woman with chronic bleeding<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Various demon-possessed men<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A deaf mute<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A man with a shriveled hand<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ten men with leprosy<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><i>Strangely enough, John&#8217;s Gospel doesn\u2019t mention any of these<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John focuses on just four particular healings and each is a story<b><i>\u00a0found in no other Gospel<\/i><\/b>:<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The official\u2019s son at Capernaum \u2013 who is healed from some non-descript disease at a\ndistance<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A sick man at the pool of Bethesda &#8211; who is described only as an invalid who cannot move himself.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A man born blind &#8211; whom Jesus heals with a blend of dirt and spit.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>And Lazarus raised from the dead.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, obviously, Jesus healed many people during his 3 and a half years of public ministry, so all the Gospel writers had plenty of material to choose from.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As John himself points out towards the end of his Gospel (21:25), &#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><i>Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: large\">So he had to pick and choose carefully.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: large\">So why do you think he chose those particular 4?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often heard that the Gospel according to John is quite different from the other three gospels. In fact, scholars refer to Matthew, Mark and Luke as the &#8220;Synoptic Gospels&#8221; &#8211; the term &#8220;synoptic&#8221; employing the Greek syn meaning &#8220;together&#8221; and opt &#8220;to see&#8221;. 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