Wherever Jesus goes people bring him those in need of physical healing. Again and again Jesus tries to to balance the needs of the individual and heals them of their physical ailments while almost always telling them not to make a big thing of it. Jesus tries to keep miracles from being a focus of his work. Why?
One of Jesus's early miracles in Mark is the "Healing and Forgiving(sic) a Paralytic" (2:1-12). It's ironic that even in Bible translations, the heading added to this section in Mark's Gospel, so often, the healing comes first or alone!
- NET: Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic
- NRSVA: Jesus Heals a Paralytic
- NASB(1995): The Paralytic Healed
- GNT: Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man
- ESV: Jesus Heals a Paralytic
Only a few have it the right way round:
- NIV: Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
- HCSB: The Son of Man Forgives and Heals
- NKJV:
The importance of this is that Jesus knows that we ALL are in need of healing. We so often focus on the obvious in this case those who have physical disabilities or needs but forget that we are all equally disabled in our attitudes and beliefs, our very core (heart) is in desperate need of healing.
As Jesus says in Mark 7:20-23: “What comes out of a person defiles him. For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. All these evils come from within and defile a person.” (NET)
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