“Merciful Father, as you have sent the Holy Spirit on Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, to write all that You wished and wanted, we pray You, send the same Holy Spirit on us, so that we may understand, appreciate Your Word, and make it our plan of life. This we ask for the merits of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
11….We find, recorded in the Gospel, seven miracles of Healing, by Jesus, taking place on the Sabbath:
· The healing of Peter’s mother-in-law.
· Healing of the man with the withered hand.
· A demoniac healed in the Synagogue.
· The healing of the impotent man at Bethsaida.
· Sight restored to the man born blind.
· Cure of a woman with an infirmity.
· The healing of the man with the dropsy.
But, has Jesus performed only thirty-five miracles? Well, only thirty-five miracles were accounted for in the Gospel, BUT, we have to remember what John, the Evangelist told us: ‘that if everything that Jesus has said and done, was to be recorded, written down, the world would not hold, all those books.’
We have to imagine that Jesus has performed a greater amount of signs, of miracles. Who can imagine the amount? Besides, Jesus has taught, has answered questions, has spoken, admonished, held debates in the Synagogues, outside the Temple, in the Temple itself, in the countryside, along the beaches, on the hillsides, on the boats, in private homes. Jesus had no fixed ‘pulpit’ from where to deliver His Word.
I personally doubt it very much, if He ever found time to actually sleep all the nights during those brief two and a half years of His life on earth. The Gospel does mention that He used to go to pray, even in the night, or early in the morning. He had such an immense, compact, programme to perform…..roaming from one place to another….12
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