Supernatural Healing

Supernatural healing is very prevalent in Pentecostal churches and the Charismatic movement. Usually, they are falsely considered to be evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4).  This indicates is a misunderstanding of what the Baptism in the Holy Spirit really means. Yet, healings in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles are prevalent.  However, these healing are dubious.  Rather, healings were a gift that ceased after the apostolic church, which was used to write the New Testament. Supernatural healing today is a false sign.   Healings in the Bible also serve as important portraits of spiritual truth.  The condition of the one in need of healing symbolizes the condition of humans prior to salvation. And, the results of the healing (e.g., blind can see, the lame can walk, etc.) are spiritual symbols of the results of salvation.  Also, healings amongst Pentecostals are often done by laying on of hands.  Laying on of hands symbolizes the will of God in salvation. Therefore, there is no mystical power in the hands of Pentecostals and Charismatics.

 

Healing in the Bible – its Spiritual Meaning

9 Spiritual Afflictions

Death (Raising the Dead) – Salvation to new life

Blindness (Restoration of the ability to see – dreams and visions) – Ability to understand spiritual truth

Deaf (Restoration of the ability to Hear)

Mute (Tongues Restored – ‘Speaking in Tongues’)

Lame (Restoration of ability to walk, run, stand, hold)

Demon Possession (Casting out demons)

Leprosy (Restoration of the Leper)

Bleeding (Halting of the flow of blood)

Sickness (healing)

Laying on of Hands

 

Healing in the Bible – its Spiritual Meaning

 

• Healing on Sabbath linked to salvation:
  • And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace. (Mar 2:27-3:4)
    • Save life = save soul
  • Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? (Joh 7:21-23)
    • Every whit whole – literally, wholly healed (G3650, G5199)
  • Healing
    • And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  (Rev 21:4)
    • Healing of the nations – Ps 147:3, Is 6:10, Isa 57:18-19, Jer 17:14, Mal 4:2, Hos 14:4, Eze 47:8-12, Hos 14:4, Mal 4:2, Lk 4:18, 1 Pet 2:24
  • Healing – Gr: therapeia (G2322, 4 occurrences) / Gr: therepeuo (G2323, 44 occurrences) – to cure (give attendance to)
  • And 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. (Mat 4:23)
  • 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 lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. (Mat 4:24)
  • And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. (Mat 8:7)
  • The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. (Mat 8:8)
  • And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. (Mat 8:13)
  • 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: (Mat 8:16)
  • And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. (Mat 9:35)
  • And 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. (Mat 10:1)
  • Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. (Mat 10:8)
  • And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. (Mat 12:10)
  • But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; (Mat 12:15)
  • Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. (Mat 12:22)
  • For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. (Mat 13:15)
  • And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. (Mat 14:14)
  • And 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: (Mat 15:30)
  • And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. (Mat 19:2)
  • And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. (Mat 21:14)
  • And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. (Mar 1:34)
  • And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. (Mar 3:2)
  • For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. (Mar 3:10)
  • And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: (Mar 3:15)
  • And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. (Mar 5:23)
  • And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. (Mar 5:29)
  • And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. (Mar 6:5)
  • And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. (Mar 6:13)
  • The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, (Luk 4:18)
  • And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (Luk 4:23)
  • Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. (Luk 4:40)
  • But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. (Luk 5:15)
  • And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. (Luk 5:17)
  • And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. (Luk 6:7)
  • And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; (Luk 6:17)
  • And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. (Luk 6:18)
  • And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all. (Luk 6:19)
  • And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant. (Luk 7:3)
  • Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed. (Luk 7:7)
  • And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, (Luk 8:2)
  • They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed. (Luk 8:36)
  • And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, (Luk 8:43)
  • And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. (Luk 8:47)
  • And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. (Luk 9:2)
  • And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. (Luk 9:6)
  • And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. (Luk 9:11)
  • And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father. (Luk 9:42)
  • And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. (Luk 10:9)
  • And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. (Luk 13:14)
  • And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? (Luk 14:3)
  • And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; (Luk 14:4)
  • And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, (Luk 17:15)
  • And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. (Luk 22:51)
  • When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. (Joh 4:47)
  • And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. (Joh 5:13)
  • He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. (Joh 12:40)
  • And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. (Act 3:11)
  • And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. (Act 4:14)
  • For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. (Act 4:22)
  • By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. (Act 4:30)
  • There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. (Act 5:16)
  • For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. (Act 8:7)
  • How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. (Act 10:38)
  • The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, (Act 14:9)
  • Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. (Act 27:34)
  • And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. (Act 28:8)
  • So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: (Act 28:9)
  • For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. (Act 28:27)
  • To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; (1Co 12:9)
  • And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. (1Co 12:28)
  • Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? (1Co 12:30)
  • And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. (Heb 12:13)
  • Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (Jas 5:16)
  • Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1Pe 2:24)
  • Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. (3Jn 1:2)
  • And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Rev 13:3)
  • And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. (Rev 13:12)
  • In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  (Rev 22:2)
  • Healing – Heb: terupha (H8644, 1 occurrence – Eze 47:12 based on H7495, Heb: rapha – 68 occurrences) – H8644 / H7495:
  • And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none  of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth  (Exo 15:26)
  • If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.  (Exo 21:19)
  • The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,  (Lev 13:18)
  • But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.  (Lev 13:37)
  • And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;  (Lev 14:3)
  • And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.  (Lev 14:48)
  • And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.  (Num 12:13)
  • The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.  (Deu 28:27)
  • The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole  of thy foot unto the top of thy head.  (Deu 28:35)
  • See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.  (Deu 32:39)
  • And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.  (1Sa 6:3)
  • And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.  (1Ki 18:30)
  • And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren  (2Ki 2:21)
  • So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.  (2Ki 2:22)
  • Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of  us is for the king of Israel?  (2Ki 6:11)
  • And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.  (2Ki 8:29)
  • But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.  (2Ki 9:15)
  • Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.  (2Ki 20:5)
  • And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?  (2Ki 20:8)
  • If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;  then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  (2Ch 7:14)
  • And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.  (2Ch 16:12)
  • And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.  (2Ch 22:6)
  • And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.  (2Ch 30:20)
  • For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.  (Job 5:18)
  • But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.  (Job 13:4)
  • Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.  (Psa 6:2)
    • LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.  (Psa 30:2)
  • I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.  (Psa 41:4)
  • Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.  (Psa 60:2)
  • Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;  (Psa 103:3)
  • He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.  (Psa 107:20)
  • He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.  (Psa 147:3)
  • A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  (Ecc 3:3)
  • Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.  (Isa 6:10)
  • And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.  (Isa 19:22)
  • Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.  (Isa 30:26)
  • But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:  the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  (Isa 53:5)
  • I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.  (Isa 57:18)
  • I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.  (Isa 57:19)
  • Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.  (Jer 3:22)
  • They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.  (Jer 6:14)
  • For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.  (Jer 8:11)
  • Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?  (Jer 8:22)
  • Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?   (Jer 15:18)
  • Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.  (Jer 17:14)
  • And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no  place to bury.  (Jer 19:11)
  • For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.  (Jer 30:17)
  • Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.  (Jer 33:6)
  • Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.  (Jer 51:8)
  • We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.  (Jer 51:9)
  • What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?  (Lam 2:13)
  • The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.  (Eze 34:4)
  • Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.  (Eze 47:8)
  • And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither  the river cometh.  (Eze 47:9)
  • But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.  (Eze 47:11)
  • When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.  (Hos 5:13)
  • Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.  (Hos 6:1)
  • When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.  (Hos 7:1)
  • I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.  (Hos 11:3)
  • I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.  (Hos 14:4)
  • For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.  (Zec 11:16)
  • Sickness represents spiritual sickness of sin – Mat 8:17, Eze 34:4, Ps 102:4, Pr 13:12, Ps 38:2-3, Is 1:4-6, Jer 8:22, Jer 30:12, 1 Cor 11:26-30, Jer 31:8, Ps 41:4, Ps 103:1-4, John 9:39, 12:40, Is 35:5-6, Acts 28:7, Mal 4:2, Isa 35:5‑6, Acts 28:27, Ps 107:20, Ps 19:22, Psa 30:2, Psa 33:6, Job 5:18, Ex 23:25
  • Sound (healing, G5198, hugiaino) doctrine – 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13, 2Ti 4:3, Tit 1:9, Tit 1:13, Tit 2:1-2, 1 Tim 6:3 – also Titus 2:8 (G5199)
  • Healing – people made ‘whole’ (G5199, hugies) – Mat 12:13, Mat 15:31, Mar 3:5, Mar 5:34, Luk 6:10, Joh 5:4, Joh 5:6, Joh 5:9, Joh 5:11, Joh 5:14-15, Joh 7:23, Act 4:10
  • Healing of the nations ‑ Ps 147:3, Is 6:10, 57:18‑19, Jer 17:14, Mal 4:2, Hos 14:4, Ez 47:8‑11, Rev 22:2
  • Healed from sickness of iniquity ‑ Is 57:19
  • Heals bruise / wound of sin ‑ Is 30:6, Jer 30:14‑17, Micah 1:9, Nah 3:19, Deut 32:39, Is 53:5
  • Heal unfaithfulness ‑ Jer 3:22
  • Heal soul from sin ‑ Ps 41:4
  • Heal iniquity, Heal diseases ‑ Ps 103:1‑4
  • Healed from transgression ‑ Is 53:4-5, 1 Pet 2:24
  • Heal from disease ‑ Ex 15:26
  • Heal brokenhearted ‑ Ps 147:3
  • G2390 – Greek: iomai (28 occurrences) – to cure
  • The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.  (Mat 8:8)
  • And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.  (Mat 8:13)
  • For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.  (Mat 13:15)
  • Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.  (Mat 15:28)
  • And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.  (Mar 5:29)
  • The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,  to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  (Luk 4:18)
  • And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.  (Luk 5:17)
  • And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;  (Luk 6:17)
  • And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them  (Luk 6:19)
  • Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.  (Luk 7:7)
  • And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.  (Luk 8:47)
  • And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.  (Luk 9:2)
  • And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.  (Luk 9:11)
  • And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again  to his father.  (Luk 9:42)
  • And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;  (Luk 14:4)
  • And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,  (Luk 17:15)
  • And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.  (Luk 22:51)
  • When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.  (Joh 4:47)
  • And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that  (Joh 5:13)
  • He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.  (Joh 12:40)
  • And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.  (Act 3:11)
  • And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed.  And he arose immediately.  (Act 9:34)
  • How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  (Act 10:38)
  • And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.  (Act 28:8)
  • For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.  (Act 28:27)
  • And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.  (Heb 12:13)
  • Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  (Jas 5:16)
  • Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  (1Pe 2:24)
  • Health ‑ Gr: hugiaino (lit: sound, whole) – G5198, G5199
  • Points to physical health in Mat 12:13, 15:31, Mk 3:5, 5:34, Lk 5:31, Lk 6:10, Lk 7:10, Lk 15:27, John 5:4‑15, John 7:23, Acts 4:10
  • Points to health doctrinally in 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13,4:3, Titus 1:9,13, 2:1‑2
  • And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. (Luk 15:27)
  • And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. (Act 3:16)
  • For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; (1Ti 1:10)
  • For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2Ti 1:7)
  • Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. (2Ti 1:13)
  • For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (2Ti 4:3)
  • Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. (Tit 1:9)
  • This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; (Tit 1:13)
  • But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: (Tit 2:1)
  • That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. (Tit 2:2)
  • Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. (Tit 2:8)
  • And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.  (Luk 5:31)
  • And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.  (Luk 7:10)
  • Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.  (3Jn 1:2)
  • If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;  (1Ti 6:3)
  • Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.  (Mat 12:13)
  • 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.  (Mat 15:31)
  • And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.  (Mar 3:5)
  • And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.  (Mar 5:34)
  • And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.  (Luk 6:10)
  • For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. (Joh 5:4-11)
  • If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?  (Joh 7:23)
  • Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.  (Act 4:10)

 

9 Spiritual Afflictions

 

1. Raising the dead – Salvation to new life, born again
2. Restoring sight – Ability to understanding spiritual truth
3. Restoring hearing – Ability to hear the Word of God
4. Restoring speech – Proclaim Christ, speak truth, sing (new song) and praise God (speaking in tongues was a sign)
5. Restoring the lame – Run race, stand for Christ, walk in Holy Spirit
6. Healing sickness – Healing of sin and iniquity
7. Healing bleeding – Salvation from punishment due to uncleanness
8. Healing leprosy – Cleansing from uncleanness / corruption
9. Casting out demons – Deliverance from Satan’s kingdom

 

 

 

Death (Raising the Dead) – Salvation to new life

• Widow’s son (Lk 7:11‑15)
• Jairus’ daughter (Mat 9:18‑26, Mk 5:22‑43, Lk 8:41‑56)
• Lazarus (John 11:17‑44)
• Dorcas (Acts 9:36‑42)
• Zarephath widow’s son (1 Ki 17:17‑24)
• Shumanite woman’s son (2 Ki 4:8‑37)
• Significance = a type of salvation : (Eph 2:1‑6, Col 2:13, Col 3:1, John 5:24, Lk 15:24,32)

 

For more information, see study on the first and second resurrections of a Christian (salvation of the soul).

Blindness (Restoration of the ability to see – dreams and visions) – Ability to understand spiritual truth

• Blind
• Demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
• 2 blind men (Mat 9:27‑31)
• Man at Bethsaida (Mk 8:22‑26)
• Man born blind (John 9:1‑7)
• Bartimaeus (Mat 20:29‑34, Mk 10:46‑52, Lk 18:35‑43)
• Significance : (Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Jer 31:8, Is 59:10, Is 35:5-6, 42:7,16‑19, Ro 11:8,25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, Ez 12:2, Lk 4:18, Is 61:1-3, John 9:39‑41, seeing ‑ General Revelation ‑ Ro 1:20, Acts 14:17, 17:24ff, Ps 19, etc)

• Seeing ‑ General Revelation ‑ Ro 1:20, Acts 14:17, 17:24ff, Ps 19, etc.
• Eyes – spiritual discerning (Eph 1:18, Rev 3:18, 4:7, Heb 4:13, Acts 26:18, 1 John 2:11, Ro 11:8‑10, John 12:40, 9:39‑41, Mat 13:14‑16, etc)
  • The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous (Psa 146:8)
  • Eyes refer to Spirit of God (see notes on Rev 1:4‑5,4:5‑9, 2 Chr 16:9, Zech 3:9,4:10)
  • see God ‑ omniscience
  • Lift up eyes – What is the focus of one’s attention – Jer 3:2, 13:20, Dan 8:3, 10:5, Zech 5:1, 6:1, Lk 16:23, 18:13, John 6:5, 17:1, Gen 13:10, 14, 18:2, 22:4,13, 24:63-64, 1 Sam 6:13
  • God – Ps 121:1, 123:1 (lift up eyes)
• God allows further blindness ‑ Mk 4:33‑34, Mat 13:10‑17, James 1:13‑17, Ro 11:7‑8, Mk 4:11‑12, Ro 1:21‑28, Is 6:9‑10

 

Deaf (Restoration of the ability to Hear)

• Hear / Deaf
• Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
• Malchus (Lk 22:49‑51, John 18:10)
• Significance : Ps 40:6, Mat 13:13-16, Job 33:16, Is 50:4-5, Deut 29:4, Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, Gal 3:2-5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10, Mk 7:31-37, Lk 22:49-51, John 18:10
• See also voice

 

A Type of being able to hear the Word God (having ears to hear spiritual things of Jesus Christ)

• Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
• Malchus (Lk 22:49‑51, John 18:10)
• Significance : (Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, 35:5, 42:18‑19, 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8,25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2,5, Hos 4:1, Ez 36:14, 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10)

 

Mute (Tongues Restored – ‘Speaking in Tongues’)

• Mute (see also Ro 3:13‑14, Ps 58:3, 10:7)
• Zecharias (Lk 1:20,64)
• Blind and dumb demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
• Dumb Demoniac (Mat 9:32‑33)
• Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
• Significance :
• Teaching ‑ Mat 28:19‑20, 1 Tim 4:11, Col 1:28, 3:16
• Sing ‑ Ps 51:14, 104:33
• Shout praise ‑ Is 35:6, Ps 35:27‑28, Ps 126:1, 95:1
• Tongues proclaim Gospel ‑ Is 28:11, 61:1‑2, 62:11, Ps 45:1,35:27‑28, 71:24,96:1‑4,126:1‑2,1 Pet 2:9,Jer 3:12
• Speak with new tongues points to the spread of the Gospel ‑ Mk 16:17, 1 Cor 12:10,28,30, Acts 2:11,26, 10:46, 19:6, Mk 7:33‑35 (Gr: glossa)
• Preach Gospel ‑ 2 Cor 10:16, 1 Pet 1:12‑15, 1 Cor 1:17, Ro 10:15, Heb 4:2
• Praise ‑ Ps 7:17, 9:2, 22:22‑26, 47, 104:33
• Speak Clearly ‑ Is 32:4

 

Tongues – A type of being able to praise, proclaim and speak the truth of Jesus Christ

• Zecharias (Lk 1:20,64)
• Blind and dumb demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
• Dumb Demoniac (Mat 9:32‑33)
• Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
• Tongues ‑ That which is used to speak ‑ Acts 1:19, 2:18, 21:40
• Lord will destroy tongues ‑ Is 11:15
• Tongues will rot in mouths ‑ Zech 14:12 (see also Pr 10:31, Ps 55:9)
• Tongues are an instrument of death ‑ see 6:3‑4, Jer 9:3, 19:18, Ps 140:3, 52:4, 57:4, 64:3, 120:2, Pr 18:21, James 3:8, Ro 3:13, etc.
• His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity – Psa 10:7
• The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies – Psa 58:3
• Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness – Rom 3:13-14
• Tongues refer to a language ‑ Acts 2:11, 1 Cor 13:1, Deut 28:49, Gen 10:5,20,31, Rev 5:9, 7:9, 10:11, 11:9, 13:7, 14:6
• Significance :
  • Teaching ‑ Mat 28:19‑20, 1 Tim 4:11, Col 1:28, 3:16
  • Sing ‑ Ps 51:14, 104:33
  • Shout praise ‑ Is 35:6, Ps 35:27‑28, Ps 126:1, 95:1
  • Tongues proclaim Gospel ‑ Is 28:11, 61:1‑2, 62:11, Ps 45:1, Ps 35:27‑28, Ps 71:24, Ps 96:1‑4, 126:1‑2, 1 Pet 2:9 ,Jer 3:12
  • Speak with new tongues points to the spread of the Gospel ‑ Mk 16:17, 1 Cor 12:10,28,30, Acts 2:11,26, 10:46, 19:6, Mk 7:33‑35 (Gr: glossa)
  • Preach Gospel ‑ 2 Cor 10:16, 1 Pet 1:12‑15, 1 Cor 1:17, Ro 10:15, Heb 4:2
  • Praise ‑ Ps 7:17, 9:2, 22:22‑26, 22:47, 104:33
  • Speak Clearly ‑ Is 32:4

Ability to hear (understand) spiritual truth

• Spiritual hearing – see , Rev 13:9, Rev 2-3, Rev 1:20
  • Spiritual hearing – see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Eze 36:1-4, Eze 37:4, Hab 3:2, Isa 1:10, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Isa 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41,Gal 3:2-5, Hos 4:1 hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10.
  • Unsaved have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f, Mat 13:14-15, Ro 11:8).
  • It is only the saved, through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, John 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27), that can truly understand God’s Word.

• The messages to the churches (Rev 2-3) are only for those who have ears to hear. This points to spiritual hearing – (see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10). Those who are unsaved do not have spiritual ears to hear. They have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f). They will keep on hearing, but not understand (Mat 13:14). Then heart of the people has grown dull and with their ears they scarcely hear (Mat 13:15). In the case of Israel, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not Ro 11:8). The ears in the Bible, therefore, can be viewed as a type of having the ability to truly hear and understand God’s Word. It is only the saved, through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, John 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27), that can truly understand God’s Word.
• HEARING
• Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
• Malchus (Lk 22:49‑51, John 18:10)
• Significance : Ps 40:6, Mat 13:13-16, Job 33:16, Is 50:4-5, Deut 29:4, Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, Gal 3:2-5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10, Mk 7:31-37, Lk 22:49-51, John 18:10
• The messages to the churches are only for those who have ears to hear. This points to spiritual hearing – (see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10). Those who are unsaved do not have spiritual ears to hear. They have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f). They will keep on hearing, but not understand (Mat 13:14). Then heart of the people has grown dull and with their ears they scarcely hear (Mat 13:15). In the case of Israel, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not Ro 11:8). The ears in the Bible, therefore, can be viewed as a type of having the ability to truly hear and understand God’s Word. It is only the saved, through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, John 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27), that can truly understand God’s Word.

 

Lame (Restoration of ability to walk, run, stand, hold)

• Lame
• Man at Pool of Bethesda (John 5:1‑9)
• Paralytic (Mat 9:2‑8, Mk 2:3‑12, Lk 5:18‑26)
• Man with dropsy (Lk 14:1‑6) – swelling with water in legs – (see also Deut 8:4, Lev 13:10, Num 5:21-22, 5:27, Acts 28:6, 1 Sam 5:6)
• Centurion’s servant (Mat 8:5‑13, Lk 7:1‑10)
• Crippled woman (Lk 13:10‑17)
• Man at gate called beautiful (Acts 3:1‑11)
• Aeneas (Acts 9:32‑35)
• Man at Lystra (Acts 14:8‑11)
• Man with withered hand (Mat 12:9‑13, Mk 3:1‑5, Lk 6:6‑10)

 

A Type of being raised, Loosed, Running the Christian Race, Walking in the Holy Spirit / Jesus Christ, Spiritually Standing

• Man at Pool of Bethseda (John 5:1‑9)
• Paralytic (Mat 9:2‑8, Mk 2:3‑12, Lk 5:18‑26)
• Man with dropsy (Lk 14:1‑6)
• Man with withered hand (Mat 12:9‑13, Mk 3:1‑5, Lk 6:6‑10)
• Centurion’s servant (Mat 8:5‑13, Lk 7:1‑10)
• Crippled woman (Lk 13:10‑17)
• Man at Lystra (Acts 14:8‑11)
• Man at gate called beautiful (Acts 3:1‑11)
• Aeneas (Acts 9:32‑35)
• Significance :
  • Hold – Song 3:4, 2 Th 2:15, 1 Th 5:21, Heb 3:6, 10:23, 1 Tim 1:19, 3:9, 2 Ti 1:13 (the will)
  • Run ‑ Isa 40:3, 1 Cor 9:24, Heb 12:1
  • Walk ‑ 1 Th 4:1, Eph 5:2,8, Col 1:10, Gal 5:16, Ro 6:4
  • Stand ‑ Eph 6:12‑16, Ps 1:5, 20:8, Ro 14:4, Phil 4:1, Ps 76:7, Nah 1:6, Mal 3:2, Lk 21:36
  • Rise (salvation) – Gr: egerio – John 5:5-9
  • Loosed – Greek: apoluo- (women bowed over) – Lk 13:12, Luke 6:37, Eph 1:7 Ro 3:24 (related to Greek words for forgiven, redeem
    • Loosed from the bond of Satan – Lk 13:16, 2 Tm 2:24-25, Lk 4:18-19
  • Leap – Is 35:6, Lk 1:41‑44, Lk 6:23
  • Hold ‑ Song 3:4, 2 Th 2:15, 1 Th 5:21, Heb 3:6, Heb 10:23, 1 Tim 1:19, 1 Tim 3:9, 2 Ti 1:13 (the will)

The Lame Walk

• The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. (Mat 11:5)
• 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. (Mat 15:31)
• Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. (Luk 7:22)

 

Healing of the Man with a Withered Hand in the Synagogue

 

In Mat 12:9-14, Mk 3:1-6, Lk 6:6-11, a man with a withered right hand is in the synagogue. The scribes and Pharisees questioned Jesus as to whether it is lawful to heal (which is a work work) on the Sabbath. The key spiritual truths concerning the Sabbath Day include:

• It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day – Mat 12:12, Mk 3:4, Lk 6:9 – see also Lk 14:3
• Healing of the withered hand is equated to saving a sheep that is fallen into a pit (salvation) – Mat 12:11-12
• And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.  (Mar 3:4)
  • Save life – Gr: salvation of soul
• Right hand represents the will of a person – Ps 44:3, Jud 11:32, Jud 13:1, Jud 15:12‑13, Jud 16:23‑24, 1 Chr 14:10, 1 Ki 15:18, 2 Sam 8:1, Ps 37:33, 71:4, Ps 106:41, etc.
  • The healing of the withered right hand points to salvation by restoring a person’s withered free will – The elect’s will is changed and caused to believe in Jesus Christ by grace – Eph 2:8-10, John 1:12-13, Phil 1:29, 1 Cor 7:25, etc.
• God takes us by the hand in salvation
  • For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, says the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (Isa 41:13-14)
  • I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. (Psa 109:30-31)
  • Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psa 73:23-24)
• Hand – to be under the will (control)
  • And He gave them into the hand of the heathen … Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. (Psa 106:41-42)
  • The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him. The LORD will not leave him in his hand … (Psa 37:32-33)
  • And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.  (Exo 21:16)
  • And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years (Rev 20:1-2)
• Human will cannot save
  • But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (Joh 1:12-13)
  • Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began  (2Ti 1:9)
  • That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (Joh 3:6)
• God leads us by the hand (salvation)
  • And it came to pass also on another Sabbath … there was a man whose right hand was withered.  (Luk 6:6)
  • For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help you. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help thee, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (Isa 41:13-14)
  • I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. (Psa 109:30-31)
  • Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand. You shall guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psa 73:23-24)
• The Christian’s will is healed
  • And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole … (Mat 12:13)
  • Whole – Greek: hugies – to be made whole, healed
  • Christians’ Will Healed:
  • … Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  (Mat 22:37)
  • Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1Pe 1:8-9)
• Christians take ‘hold’ of eternal life
  • Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.  (1Ti 6:12)
  • … we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:  (Heb 6:18)
  • My soul follows hard after thee: thy right hand upholds me.  (Psa 63:8)
  • I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  (Php 3:14)
• Pharisees watched to see if He would ‘heal’ on the Sabbath – Mat 2:10, Mk 3:2, Lk 6:7
  • Heal – Gr: therapeuo (G2323)
• Restored ‘whole’ – Mat 12:13, Mk 3:5, Lk 6:10
  • Whole – Gr: hugies (G5199)
• Pharisees held a council (with the Herodians) on how to destroy Jesus – Mat 12:14, Mk 3:6, Lk 6:11 (see also John 5:18, John 10:39, John 11:53, John 11:57, Mat 27:1)
• Withered – Symbolic of the dryness (no water of the Holy Spirit / Gospel)
  • G3583 – Gr: xeraino – literally, to dessicate (no water) – 16 occurrences including Mk 3:1, Mk 3:3
    • Withered fig tree – Mat 21:19-20, Mk 11:20-21
    • Withered away vine branch – John 15:6
    • Withered grass – James 1:11, 1 Pet 1:24
    • Seed on the stony ground – Mk 4:6
    • And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.  (Rev 16:12)
  • G3584 – Gr: xeros – literally, arid, dry – 9 occurrences including Mat 12:10, Lk 6:6, Lk 6:8
    • In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.  (Joh 5:3)
    • By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.  (Heb 11:29)
    • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.  (Mat 23:15)
  • Note: see also 1 Ki 13:1-10 for the healing of King Jeroboam’s withered hand by the ‘man of God’.
• Water – symbol of the Holy Spirit / Gospel / Word of God
  • That which provides life, satisfies thirst for righteousness, Word of god
• Waters – can refer to word of God – Eph 5:26 (the instrument of Satan to deceive)

• Water – Word of God – Eph 5:25-26, Eph 5:18, Is 55:1, Is 55:10-11, Deut 32:1-2
  • Water refers to the Gospel ‑ Eph 5:25‑26
  • Washing of regeneration ‑ Titus 3:5, 1 Cor 6:11, Acts 22:16, 1 Pet 3:21 (washed by baptism)
  • Water out of Jesus’ side – John 19:34 (water and blood) – Holy Spirit to be sent
  • Living waters –Zech 14:8, Eze 47:1-12, Joel 3:18, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 7:38, Rev 22:1-2, Rev 22:17, Song 4:15, Jer 2:13, Jer 17:13, Rev 7:17
  • Initial salvation (spirit) – Is 55:1, John 4:14, Jer 2:11-13, Jer 17:13, Ps 46:4, Job 20:17, Is 58:11
  • Fullness of salvation – Rev 21:6, Rev 22:1
  • Water of the Gospel / salvation – Eph 5:25-26, Eze 16:9, John 15:3, John 17:7, 1 Pet 1:23, Eph 5:18, Is 55:10-11, Ro 10:8-9, Ro 10:17, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17, Ps 46:4, Eze 47:1, Ps 36:8, Ps 65:9, Is 8:6, Is 32:2, Is 44:3, Is 58:11, Mk 1:8
  • Cleansing by Word of God (Holy Spirit)
    • … as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word (Eph 5:25-26)
    • Word of God
      • … Spirit of truth … John 14:17
      • But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit … he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.  (Joh 14:26)
      • Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1Pe 1:11)
    • Sanctification
      • Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit … (1Pe 1:2)
  • Pour out Spirit:
    • Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.  (Pro 1:23)
    • For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.  (Isa 29:10)
    • Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.  (Isa 32:15)
    • For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:  (Isa 44:3)
    • Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.  (Eze 39:29)
    • And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:  (Joe 2:28)
    • And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.  (Joe 2:29)
    • And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.  (Zec 12:10)
    • And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:  (Act 2:17)
    • And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:  (Act 2:18)
    • Therefore being exalted to the right of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear. (Act 2:33)
    • And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.  (Act 10:45)
    • And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  (Rom 5:5)
    • Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.  (Eze 39:29)
  • Baptized by the Holy Spirit
    • And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:  (Mat 3:16)
    • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.  (Joh 1:33)
    • This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.  (Act 18:25)
    • For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.  (1Co 12:13)
    • I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:  (Mat 3:11)
    • Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  (Mat 28:19)
    • I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.  (Mar 1:8)
    • John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:  (Luk 3:16)
    • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.  (Joh 1:33)
    • For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.  (Act 1:5)
    • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  (Act 2:38)
    • Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?  (Act 10:47)
    • Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.  (Act 11:16)

• Water dried up – symbol for the preparation of salvation

• God’s mighty hand will dry up the river (similar to Exodus from Egypt) – Judgment day / salvation – Is 11:15-16, Is 19:5-8, Zech 10:10-11, Ps 68:22
• God brings forth a way in the sea, chariots destroyed – Is 43:16-17, Ex 14:4-9, Ex 14:21-28, Ex 15:4, Ps 46:8-9, Ps 74:13-15, Eze 30:12, Is 51:15, Is 51:9-10, Neh 9:11, Job 26:12, Jer 31:35, Is 50:2
• Dry up the pools on Judgment Day – Is 42:15
• God dries up the rivers – Is 44:27
• God makes a way / a path in the mighty waters – Is 43:16
• Divided the Jordan – Ps 114:3-5, Ps 74:15, Josh 3:13-16, Josh 4:23-24
• Judgment on Egypt – Is 19:5-10
• Babylon waters to be dried up – Jer 50:38-40, Jer 51:32-36

 

The Bowed Over Woman

 

In Lk 13:10-17, while Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath, He heals a woman who had a spirit of infirmity (asthenia, G769) and was bowed-over for 18 years (Lk 13:11).  The key spiritual truths with regard to the Sabbath include:

• Ruler of the synagogue was indignant due to the healing on the Sabbath Day and said that there are only 6 days of which people should work (healing was a work), not on the Sabbath Day – Lk 13:14
• Infirmity (weakness, G769 through G772) can point to spiritual infirmity
• Healing was a portrait of salvation since she was ‘loosed’ from her infirmity of which Satan had her bound – Lk 13:12,16
  • Loosed (Gr: apoluo, G630) – to set free, set loose from bondage, forgiven)
    • Cognate with G629, G3083, G3089 – redemption (loosing, freeing)
  • Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:  (Luk 6:37)
• Laid hands on – will of God
• Woman made straight – Lk 13:13
  • Straight (Gr: anorhtoo, G461 – lift up, make straight) – Type of salvation
• Ruler a hypocrite since all will loose their ox or ass to lead them away to be watered – Lk 13:15-16
  • Loosed (G3089, luo – to be made free, loosed) – salvation
  • Watered – Word of God, spiritually restored
  • Satan had bound – bondage to sin, Satan’s kingdom

 

The Man with Dropsy

 

While Jesus was eating bread at the house of one of the chief Pharisees (with the lawyers also in attendance) on the Sabbath day, Jesus healed a man with dropsy (Lk 14:1-6). Jesus asked them whether it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day, but the Pharisees and lawyers did not respond (Lk 14:3-4).  The key spiritual truth with regard to the Sabbath Day include:

• Dropsy (Gr: hudropikos, G5203 – literally, watery looking (edema))
• Points to salvation – who would have an ox or ass and falls into a pit, would not pull it out – (Lk 14:5 – see also Lk 13:15-16). Pit is a place of damnation.
  • Pit – Gr: Pit – Gr: phrear – Lk 14:5, John 4:11-12, Rev 9:1-2
  • ‘Phrear’ is used 6 times in the New Testament (Lk 14:5, Rev 9:1-2 (twice), John 4:11-12). In Rev 9:1-2, it is called a bottomless (abussos) pit, where the locusts come out to torment those in the world during the Great Tribulation (i.e., place of damnation).
  • Bottomless – Gr: abussos (other than Revelation used only twice – Ro 10:7, Lk 8:31 – Gadarene demoniac symbolic of place of being under torment) – A place where Jesus was – Ro 10:7. This term is used 9 times in the New Testament (Lk 8:31, Ro 10:7, Rev 9:1-2, Rev 9:11, Rev 11:7, Rev 17:8, Rev 20:1-3). It literally denotes the meaning ‘bottomless’.

 

The Lame Man (John 5, explained further in John 7:21-23)

 

In John 5:1-18 (and recounted in John 7:21-23), Jesus went up to Jerusalem because of the feast of the Jews (John 5:1). At the sheep pool of Bethesda having 5 porches was a man that was lame for 38 years and not able to be healed by the angel who stirred the waters (John 5:3-7).  Jesus asked him if he wanted to be made whole (John 5:6). Jesus healed him on the Sabbath Day and told him to take up his bed and walk (John 5:8-9).  This healing was also further discussed at the later Feast of Tabernacles in John 7:21-23.  This healing is a portrait of salvation for the following reasons:

• Whole – (Gr: hugies (G5199) – see above on healing as salvation)
• Rise (John 5:8-9) – (Gr: egeiro (G1453) – points to rising of Christ) – Christians are raised together with Him in salvation – Col 2:12, 1 Cor 15:52, Eph 2:5, Col 3:1, etc.
• Walk (John 5:8-9) – walk Walking in truth / walk in the Spirit ‑ Eph 5:2,7‑10, 1 John 1:6,7, 2:3‑6, 3 John 3‑4, 1 Th 4:1, Eph 5:2, Eph 5:8, Col 1:10, Gal 5:16, Ro 6:4
• Jews said it was not lawful to carry the bed on the Sabbath – John 5:10-11
• Jesus said – My Father works and I work – John 5:17, John 7:21 (admitted it was work – the healing was the work of God)
• Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him because he broke the Sabbath and said God was His Father making Himself equal with God – John 5:16-18 (see also Mat 27:1, Mk 3:6, Mat 12:14, Lk 6:11, John 10:39, John 11:53, John 11:57)
• At the Feast of Tabernacles in John 7:21-23, Jesus pointed out that circumcision (which is a work, not given of Moses, but the fathers) is still done on the Sabbath day, whether it is a Sabbath or not (John 7:22-23). Jesus compared circumcision to making a man ‘every whit whole’ (G3650, G5199) on the Sabbath Day (John 7:23):
  • If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? (Joh 7:21-23)
    • Every whit whole – literally, wholly healed (G3650, G5199)
  • Circumcision – a Type of salvation (cutting away of the flesh with blood, seed of Abraham)
    • Physical circumcision – Gen 17:10-27, Gen 34:15-24, Ex 12:44-48, Gen 21:4, Josh 5:2-7, Lev 12:3, Ex 4:26, Lk 1:59, Lk 2:21, Phil 3:5, Acts 16:3, 10:45, 11:2, Ro 3:1, Eph 2:11, Col 3:11, 4:11
    • 8^th day – Gen 17:12, Gen 21:4, Lev 12:3, Lk 1:59 (John), Lk 2:21 (Jesus), Acts 7:8 (Paul)
      • David 1^st child of Bathsheba died on the 7^th day – 2 Sam 12:15-23
    • A sign of the seal of the true circumcision (Ro 4:9-12)
    • A covenant of works – Acts 7:8, Ro 2:25
    • A removal of the body of sin – Col 2:11-13 w/ Gal 5:24, 1 Cor 7:19
    • A type of grace, compared to the Sabbath Day – John 7:22-23, Ro 15:8
    • Those who worship God in spirit – Phil 3:3 (true circumcision)
    • A type of faith and works – Acts 15:1,5,24, Gal 2:3,7-9, 5:3-11, 6:12-15, Titus 1:10, Acts 10:45
    • Hearts circumcised ‑ Deut 10:16, Deut 30:6, Jer 4:4, Jer 9:25, Col 2:11, Ro 2:25‑29, Phil 3:3
    • Sons of Abraham – Gal 3:7, Gal 3:16, Gal 3:29, Lk 19:9, Ro 9:7, Acts 3:25
  • Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.  (Joh 7:24)

 

Demon Possession (Casting out demons)

• Demon Possession
• Synagogue demoniac (Mk 1:23‑28, Lk 4:31‑36)
• Blind and dumb demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
• Gaderene men (Mat 8:28‑34, Mk 5:1‑20, Lk 8:26‑29)
• Dumb Demoniac (Mat 9:32‑33)
• Syrophoenician’s daughter (Mat 15:21‑28, Mk 7:24‑30)
• Possessed boy (Mat 17:14‑18, Mk 9:14‑29, Lk 9:38‑42)
• Significance : (Mat 8:16‑17, Eph 2:2, 4:8‑9, 6:12, 1 John 4:1‑4,5:19, John 12:31)

 

A type of the removal of Satan’s (demonic) control of a person once they are saved, resulting in obedience to Christ

• Synagogue demoniac (Mk 1:23‑28, Lk 4:31‑36)
• Blind and dumb demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
• Gaderene men (Mat 8:28‑34, Mk 5:1‑20, Lk 8:26‑29)
• Dumb Demoniac (Mat 9:32‑33)
• Syrophoenician’s daughter (Mat 15:21‑28, Mk 7:24‑30)
• Possessed boy (Mat 17:14‑18, Mk 9:14‑29, Lk 9:38‑42)
• Significance : (Mat 8:16‑17, Eph 2:2, 4:8‑9, 6:12, 1 John 4:1‑4,5:19, John 12:31)

 

Apostles Given Power Over Unclean Spirits

• And 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. (Mat 10:1)
• And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits…(Mark 6:7)
• And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:17-18)
• And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. (Luke 10:17-20)

 

Apostolic Gifts included Casting out Demons

• How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (Heb 2:3-4)
• Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. (2 Cor 12:12)
• And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:17-18)
• So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. (Mark 16:19-20)
• Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. (Acts 14:3)
• And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. (Acts 19:11-12)
• For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. (Rom 15:18-19)

 

Salvation – The Symbolic Meaning of Casting out Demons

• And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. 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: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (Mat 8:14-17)
• He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa 53:3-6)
• Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isa 53:10-12)
• Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (1 Pet 2:24-25)
• And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (Eph 2:1-5)
• Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? (Eph 4:8-9)
• Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (Eph 6:10-13)
• Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:1-6)
• And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. (1 John 5:19)
• Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Heb 2:14-15)
• Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. (Mat 12:22-30)
• And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. (Mark 3:22-27)
• But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. (Luke 11:17-23)

 

Unsaved are under the Control of Satan

• Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. (Eph 2:2)
• He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8)
• In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother. (1 John 3:10)

 

Leprosy (Restoration of the Leper)

• Leprosy
• Miriam (Num 21)
• Naaman (2 Ki 5)
• Lepers are unclean – Lev 13:45, Mat 8:2, Mat 11:5, etc.
• Leper (Mat 8:2‑4, Mk 1:40‑45, Lk 5:12‑16)
• 10 lepers (Lk 17:11‑19)
• Significance : (Lev 13‑14, Eze 36:25, Eph 5:25‑26)

 

A type of the cleansing and restoration from the sickness of sin and the degradation that sin causes

• Miriam (Num 21)
• Naaman (2 Ki 5)
• Leper (Mat 8:2‑4, Mk 1:40‑45, Lk 5:12‑16)
• 10 lepers (Lk 17:11‑19)
• Significance : (Lev 13‑14, Ez 36:25, Eph 5:25‑26)

 

Bleeding (Halting of the flow of blood)

• Bleeding – symbol of being punished for uncleanness and being saved
• Woman with issue (flow) of blood (Mat 9:20‑22, Mk 5:25‑34, Lk 8:43‑48 based on Lev 15:19-33)
  • A plague – Mk 5:29, Mk 5:34, (see also Mk 3:10, Lk 7:21 for other people with plagues)
  • Plague – Gr: mastix (G3148) – a plague or literally, a scourging (whipping) as in Acts 22:24-25, Heb 11:36, see also G3146 / G3147 for scourge)
  • Made whole – literally, saved (Greek: sozo) – Mk 5:28, Mk 5:34, Mat 9:21-22, Lk 8:48
  • And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.  (Act 22:20)
• Significance : unclean/guilt ‑ Ps 51:4, Is 1:15, Lev 12:2, 15:19

 

A type of the removal of the guilt and uncleanness of sin.  Jesus Christ’s blood saves us from our unclean sinful condition

• Woman with issue of blood (Mat 9:20‑22, Mk 5:25‑34, Lk 8:43‑48)
• Significance : unclean/guilt ‑ Ps 51:4, Is 1:15, Lev 12:2, 15:19

 

Sickness (healing)

• Sickness
• Many sick were healed (Mk 6:56, Mk 6:13, Mk 1:34, Mat 8:16, 1 Cor 11:30)
• Peter’s mother‑in‑law (Mat 8:14‑15, Mk 1:29‑31, Lk 4:38‑39)
• Nobleman’s son (John 4:46‑54)
• Hezekiah (Is 38, 2 Ki 20, 2 Chr 32)
• Significance : (James 5:15‑16, Ps 77:10, Ez 34:4,16, Pr 13:12, 1 Cor 11:26‑30)
• And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.  (Isa 33:24)
• Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.  (Pro 13:12)
• In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  (Rev 22:2)
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised  (Luk 4:18)

A type of restoration from the sickness of sin and the return to a sound / whole person that follows the truth of Jesus Christ

 

• Peter’s mother‑in‑law (Mat 8:14‑15, Mk 1:29‑31, Lk 4:38‑39)
• Nobleman’s son (John 4:46‑54)
• Hezekiah (Is 38, 2 Ki 20, 2 Chr 32)
• Significance : (James 5:15‑16, Ps 77:10, Ez 34:4,16, Pr 13:12, 1 Cor 11:26‑30)
• Healed from sickness of iniquity ‑ Is 57:19
• Heals bruise / wound of sin ‑ Is 30:6, Jer 30:14‑17, Micah 1:9, Nah 3:19, Deut 32:39, Is 53:5
• Heal unfaithfulness ‑ Jer 3:22
• Heal soul from sin ‑ Ps 41:4
• Heal iniquity, Heal diseases ‑ Ps 103:1‑4
• Healed from transgression ‑ Is 53:5, 1 Pet 2:24
• Heal from disease ‑ Ex 15:26
• Heal brokenhearted ‑ Ps 147:3

 

Health ‑ Gr: hugiaino (lit: sound, whole)

• Points to physical health in Mat 12:13, 15:31, Mk 3:5, 5:34, Lk 5:31, 6:10, 7:10, 15:27, John 5:4‑15, 7:23, Acts 4:10
• Points to health doctrinally in 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13,4:3, Titus 1:9,13, 2:1‑2
• Physical health – Mat 12:13, 15:31, Mk 3:5, 5:34, Lk 5:31, 6:10, 7:10, 15:27, John 5:4-15, 7:23, Acts 4:10
• Spiritual doctrinal health – 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13, 4:3, Titus 1:9,13, 2:1-2

 

Laying on of Hands – Symbolic Meaning

Laying on of Hands

 

Symbolic Meaning of the Hand

 

• Hand represents the will of a person
  • When a nation lost to another in battle, it was referred to as being delivered into the hand of the victor (see Judges 11:32, Judges 13:1, Judges 15:12‑13, Judges 16:23‑24, 1 Chr 14:10, 1 Ki 15:18, 2 Sam 8:1, Ps 37:33, Ps 71:4, Ps 106:41-42)
  • God’s right hand points to the will of God in salvation ‑ Ps 44:3, Jud 7:6, Ps 10:12, Ps 20:6-8, Ps 28:5, Ps 78:54, Ps 89:21, Ps 98:1-4, Ps 106:41‑42, Ps 136:12, Ex 13:16, Ex 15:6, Ex 15:16‑17, Jer 18:1‑6, Jer 32:21, Eze 3:14, Ex 6:6, Acts 11:21, Lk 1:66.
  • Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father – Acts 7:55-56, Ps 110:1, Joh 14:3; Heb 1:3, Heb 8:1, Heb 10:12, Heb 12:2; Mar 16:19; Luk 20:42-43; Act 2:33, Act 7:56; Rom 8:34; Eph 1:20-22; Col 3:1; 1Pe 1:21, 1Pe 3:22; Rev 3:21
  • Jesus comes to do the will of the Father – John 6:38, Joh 4:34, Joh 5:30; Psa 40:7-8; Isa 53:10; Mat 26:39-42; Rom 15:3; Php 2:7-8; Heb 5:8, Heb 10:7-9
  • See Rev 1:16, Rev 6:5, Rev 9:20 etc.

Salvation by God’s Right Hand

• Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.  (Job 40:14)
• Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.  (Psa 17:7)
• Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.  (Psa 20:6)
• For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.  (Psa 44:3)
• That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.  (Psa 60:5)
• That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.  (Psa 108:6)
• For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.  (Psa 109:31)
• Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.  (Psa 138:7)
• Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.  (Psa 18:35)
• The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.  (Psa 118:15)
• And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left … Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:  (Mat 25:33-34)

God’s Right Hand – Where Christ is seated

• He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.  (Mar 16:19)
• And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:  (Eph 2:6)
• And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.  (1Ki 22:19)
• Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.  (2Ch 18:18)
• A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.  (Psa 110:1)
• And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.  (Mat 20:21)
• And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.  (Mat 20:23)
• The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?  (Mat 22:44)
• Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.  (Mat 26:64)
• They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.  (Mar 10:37)
• But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.  (Mar 10:40)
• For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.  (Mar 12:36)
• And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.  (Mar 14:62)
• And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,  (Luk 20:42)
• Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.  (Luk 22:69)
• For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,  (Act 2:34)
• If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  (Col 3:1)
• But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?  (Heb 1:13)

 

Old Testament Usages

 

To give a blessing

• And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. (Gen 48:14)

On the heads of sacrifices:

• And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD. (Lev 4:15)
• And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. (Lev 8:14)
• And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. (Lev 8:18)
• And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. (Lev 8:22)
• And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: (Lev 16:21)
• And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites. (Num 8:12)

On the head of person being stoned for blasphemy:

• Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. (Lev 24:14)

For Service / Ministry

• And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. (Num 27:23)
• And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. (Deu 34:9)

To control another for destruction / punishment / judgment

• And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain. (2Ki 11:16)
• So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there. (2Ch 23:15)
• And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: (2Ch 29:23)
• Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath. (Neh 13:21)
• And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. (Est 3:6)
• Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; (Oba 1:13)

 

New Testament Usages

 

Laying on of Hands is a fundamental doctrine:

• Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (Heb 6:2)

Take control over another (negative):

• But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. (Mat 18:28)
• But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. (Mat 21:46)
• And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. (Mat 26:50)
• And they laid their hands on him, and took him. (Mar 14:46)
• And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. (Luk 20:19)
• But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. (Luk 21:12)
• Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. (Joh 7:30)
• And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. (Joh 7:44)
• These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. (Joh 8:20)
• And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. (Act 4:3)
• And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. (Act 5:18)
• And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, (Act 21:27)

Type of Salvation (children symbolic of Christians):

• And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence. (Mat 19:15)

Saving the sick and dying:

• And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. (Mar 5:23)
• And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. (Mar 6:5)
• And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.  (Mar 7:32)
• They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mar 16:18)
• Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. (Luk 4:40)
• And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. (Luk 13:13)
• And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. (Act 28:8)

Laying hands on for service / ministry / gifts:

• Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. (Act 6:6)
• And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. (Act 13:3)
• Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. (1Ti 4:14)
• Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. (1Ti 5:22)

Receiving the Holy Spirit

• Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. (Act 8:17)
• And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, (Act 8:18)
• Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. (Act 8:19)
• And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. (Act 19:6)