John’s Tweets for Today

• We’ve left Tyre and are now in Decapolis. Some people brought a man who never could hear or speak & asked Jesus to heal him.
• Jesus took the man aside. He’s putting his fingers in man’s ears & put spit on man’s tongue. He prayed, groaned and commanded “Open up!”
• The man is talking plainly and he can hear us! Jesus told the man & his friends not to tell anyone, but they’re amazed & can’t stop telling.

I think it’s interesting how Jesus heals differently in different situations.  It makes me wonder if it really did take some physical energy from him.  This time he actually groans in prayer and then commands the man’s ears to open.

The story from yesterday, with the woman who follows him into the house in Tyre and asks him to heal her daughter also makes me wonder if it cost Jesus something to heal people.  He seems tired to me in that story.  Of course, I have no way of knowing if he really was tired, but he did enter the house in secret, not wanting anyone to know he was there.

And the story of the woman touching his robe, when he could feel the healing power go out of him also makes me wonder.  Even in that large, pressing crowd he knew someone had touched him.  Was it because he felt it physically?

Is there more to Jesus’ healing than just a “magic” word, a quick command?  What do you think?

Bible Reference: Mark 7:31-37