He Healed Them All

Some of the most famous stories of the New Testament are those in which Jesus healed specific individuals.  Well known are the accounts of the woman with the issue of blood, the man born blind, the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, the daughter of Jairus, the widow of Nain’s son, Lazarus, and many others.  To all of these he provided miraculous healing, giving sight to the blind, causing the lame to walk, and raising the dead.  We see in these stories the care of the Savior for individuals and His willingness to serve “the one” even when He was otherwise engaged.  In a sense these show the quality of His personal healing ministry to each individual. 

               We also get the sense from the gospel accounts that He helped also helped a high quantity of people.  We see this of course in the way He fed the entire groups of 5000 and 4000.  In the healing of the ten leapers He healed a whole group at once.  Other scriptures also confirm that His healings were indeed large in number.  Luke recorded, “And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all” (Luke 6:19).  Matthew especially focused on the large quantity of healings that took place.  At the beginning of His ministry, “Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.  And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them” (Matt. 4:23-24).  Matthew again recorded later, “When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick” (Matt. 8:16).  On another occasion, “He withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all” (Matt. 12:15).  After Jesus healed the daughter of the Gentile woman, “Great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them.  Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel” (Matt. 15:30-31).  Clearly the number of people healed in these circumstances was very large, and each time He healed them all.  Christ healed all those who came to Him and the number of people who came to Him was nothing small.  So perhaps one takeaway from these scriptures is that the Savior indeed has room for us.  We don’t need to worry about His having the time or capacity to also help us—He will bless and help us all if we will but come to Him.