The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

THE WITHERED HAND
Mark iii. 1-5.
It is a remarkable fact that the Son of God found
time for the healing of bodily diseases. He came
from heaven to do a spiritual work. He had set
before Him the redemption of souls from sin, and
their restoration to God, yet He was constantly
engaged in curing diseases. One might have
supposed that, coming as He did from a painless,
sorrowless world, He would have had no sympathy
with sufferers, that He would have exhorted such to
virtue and self-control, and would have contented himself
with arousing in them an expectation of a time
coming when pain would be no more. But it was not
so. He sympathised so deeply with the ills that flesh
is heir to, that it is said, " Himself bore our sins and
took our
sicknesses," and with a pity as great as His
power He laid His hand on the sick folk and healed
them.
Yet He had a stupendous spiritual work to do,
and only three years of public ministry. In it He
was so busy that He had sometimes no leisure so
much as to eat, and His only opportunity for prayer
was at night-time on the mountain. Still He found
time to heal bodily infirmities, nor was there any
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