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Anointings
And He didn't.
"All I did," He continued, "all I could
possibly do there was lay my hands on a few
sick folk and heal them. And the few that I
laid hands on didn't have much wrong with them."
Of course, after this I studied that verse
because I really didn't remember it registering
on me before. I looked at Mark 6:5 where it says.
"And he could there do no mighty work, save
that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk,
and healed them." I looked it up in various trans
lations. One translation said, "He laid His
hands on a few 'sickly folk'." Well you know if
you're just sort of 'sickly' you don't have too
much wrong with you.
Then I looked it up in W.E.Vine's Expos
itory Dictionary of New Testament Words. W.E.
Vine was a professor of Greek at Oxford
University and a very learned man in this area.
His book is a very wonderful study. In com
menting on this verse Vine says, "The Greek
says, He laid His hands on a few folk with
minor ailments."
One translation said 'sickly', Vine said the
Greek says 'minor ailments'. Jesus in the
vision said to me, "They didn't have much wrong
with them."
Jesus had said to me, "The King James
translation of the New Testament says that
only a few were healed under my ministry
there."
That upended some of my theology. I had
been taught that Jesus always healed every
body who was sick everywhere He went.
Jesus said to me, "It is true that in some
places on some occasions everybody who was
there in that service or in that place that day,
every sick person was healed. It is also true
that in other places on other occasions and on
other days, like for instance here at Nazareth,
just a few received healing."
One of the accusations thrown at us who
believe in healing and in the healing ministry
is, "If you heal the sick like Jesus why don't
you heal everybody?" Of course, we don't heal
the sick. What they really mean is, "If you
minister to the sick like Jesus and the apostles
did, why don't you heal everybody like they did?"
And, of course, the answer isthey didn't!
That comes as a shock to some people. That
sort of came as a shock to me.
Jesus said, "Notice the text said that I could
there do no mighty work save I laid my hands on
a 'few'. How many is a few?"
I didn't know how many a 'few' was. Do you
know how many a 'few' is? I'd never had any
body ask me that.
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