Who did any healing except Jesus?

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Reading Mark ch 3, Verses 1 to 6 about Jesus healing a man's hand on the Sabbath, it occurred to me that it seems only Christ did any actual healing and on a grand scale too.
The Pharisees didn't.
So in those times who actually did any? There were a lot of possessed, blind, sick, leprous folks around. I do not know if John the Baptist had a healing gift, or if the disciples did?
Jesus definitely did not just heal the soul, he healed serious diseases. He freed people to live again, to function and be free of pain. How brilliant is that? The ones who hated Him didn't do anything of any use really, except posture.

It's worth thinking about those today who choose not to believe in Jesus. He came and did good. Who else does that?
 
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MaryM said:
Reading Mark ch 3, Verses 1 to 6 about Jesus healing a man's hand on the Sabbath, it occurred to me that it seems only Christ did any actual healing and on a grand scale too.
The Pharisees didn't.
So in those times who actually did any? There were a lot of possessed, blind, sick, leprous folks around. I do not know if John the Baptist had a healing gift, or if the disciples did?
Jesus definitely did not just heal the soul, he healed serious diseases. He freed people to live again, to function and be free of pain. How brilliant is that? The ones who hated Him didn't do anything of any use really, except posture.

It's worth thinking about those today who choose not to believe in Jesus. He came and did good. Who else does that?
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I do know Peter certainly healed people. He was so close to God that if his mere shadow passed over people they were healed. Folks were bringing their sick people out by the roadside just to catch his shadow.

As for the Pharisees, they DID think they were doing what was right. They were nowhere near right, but they were following the letter of the law. They found a way to follow it that was profitable for them, in money and in feeding their egos. They didn't have any interest in the spirit of the law, what the law was actually intended for, but they were technically doing what they should.
 
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In point of fact, nobody but God healed anybody. People asked God to heal people, people commanded demons to leave by God's authority, God's power on someone reached out to nearby people and healed them, but humans never did any miracles at all.

I can flip a switch but I can't make a lightbulb shine. That's on the TVA and their network of power lines that come from the Pickwick Dam.
 
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Lynx said:
I do know Peter certainly healed people. He was so close to God that if his mere shadow passed over people they were healed. Folks were bringing their sick people out by the roadside just to catch his shadow.

As for the Pharisees, they DID think they were doing what was right. They were nowhere near right, but they were following the letter of the law. They found a way to follow it that was profitable for them, in money and in feeding their egos. They didn't have any interest in the spirit of the law, what the law was actually intended for, but they were technically doing what they should.
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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach." (Mt 23:1-3)

politicians? :sneaky:
 
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notmyown said:
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach." (Mt 23:1-3)

politicians? :sneaky:
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Yeah, that works. They were religious politicians.
 
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notmyown said:
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach." (Mt 23:1-3)

politicians? :sneaky:
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I think it is a common misunderstanding that the Priests and Pharisees preached the Torah, that is only partially correct. What they actually preached was Halakah. Halakah is a combination of the Torah, human interpretation of what the Torah means to them, and Jewish tradition. This is why Yeshua was so critical of the legalism of the Priests and Pharisees but also stated he did not come to change Torah.
 
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Lynx said:
I do know Peter certainly healed people. He was so close to God that if his mere shadow passed over people they were healed. Folks were bringing their sick people out by the roadside just to catch his shadow.

As for the Pharisees, they DID think they were doing what was right. They were nowhere near right, but they were following the letter of the law. They found a way to follow it that was profitable for them, in money and in feeding their egos. They didn't have any interest in the spirit of the law, what the law was actually intended for, but they were technically doing what they should.
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Is there any instance of healing as Jesus did?
Peter healed after Jesus's crucifixion? In his ministry.
 
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All must understand that when a person is given to heal another, it is s God working through him as a willing servant. No one who believes will say, "I am going to heal anyone who comes my way" for it is only in the name of Jesus Yeshua by which any miracle of any manner is channeled through the gifted one.

All good works are to God's glory.
 
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MaryM said:
Is there any instance of healing as Jesus did?
Peter healed after Jesus's crucifixion? In his ministry.
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Oh you mean at the same time that Jesus was operating?

Jesus sent his disciples out in pairs to do God's work. They came back all excited because it actually worked.
 
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Do we hear of specific healings by anyone other than Jesus?
 
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Lynx said:
In point of fact, nobody but God healed anybody. People asked God to heal people, people commanded demons to leave by God's authority, God's power on someone reached out to nearby people and healed them, but humans never did any miracles at all.

I can flip a switch but I can't make a lightbulb shine. That's on the TVA and their network of power lines that come from the Pickwick Dam.
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To be fair, when Jesus sent out the Apostles, including the 70, He gave them the power to heal and cast out daemons. Yes, the "power' came from Jesus/God, but He/They use/used people to do the healing.

Matthew, Chapter 10:
1And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
 
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Even though the disciples were sent out with the ability to heal the sick and cast out demons, maybe the reason specific instances weren't recorded was so that the emphasis would remain on Jesus and what He did. Just a thought.
 
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ChristFllwr said:
Even though the disciples were sent out with the ability to heal the sick and cast out demons, maybe the reason specific instances weren't recorded was so that the emphasis would remain on Jesus and what He did. Just a thought.
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When the disciples returned dthey declared they were aable to do these works of God nly in the name of Jesus Yeshua.

Remember these are gifts not abilities, and the gift is from God in His name.
 
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JaumeJ said:
When the disciples returned dthey declared they were aable to do these works of God nly in the name of Jesus Yeshua.

Remember these are gifts not abilities, and the gift is from God in His name.
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Yes, I know. the gift causes the ability to preform it.
 
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The times I have been used as a vessel to help other by the gift of knowledge or healing, the Holy Spirit would move me, literally, and inform me of what where and who to go to . I would open my mouth and speak, and in so doing I learned the same as the hearer. All glorifying Jesus Yeshua. I never had nor claimed to have done anything afterwards for I know from Whom the actual service came .

I did nothing, it was only availing myself to be there for the person or persons in need.
 
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ChristFllwr said:
Even though the disciples were sent out with the ability to heal the sick and cast out demons, maybe the reason specific instances weren't recorded was so that the emphasis would remain on Jesus and what He did. Just a thought.
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Interesting, yet strange. I would have expected miraculous healings by the disciples to have become famous. Yet not one specific one is recorded. The thing about Peter's very shadow being healing seems vague.
 
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MaryM said:
Interesting, yet strange. I would have expected miraculous healings by the disciples to have become famous. Yet not one specific one is recorded. The thing about Peter's very shadow being healing seems vague.
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The story of the lame man at the gate, the one Peter and John met, is VERY specific.

So is the one about Annanias and Sapphira.
 
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No one is given the ability to do danything, however some are authorized.
 
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Lynx said:
The story of the lame man at the gate, the one Peter and John met, is VERY specific.

So is the one about Annanias and Sapphira.
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Yes you are right.
 
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