Reading Notes: Jesus the Healer, Part B

For this reading, I read the Biblical story "Jesus the Healer."

This story is all about the healing power of Mary, the mother of Jesus. At the beginning, Mary proves to a woman when commanded that she can help others at their request. Doing so, she gave thanks to God and prayed to him while helping the woman with her child who was ill.

Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. Photo from Wikipedia.

There were many leprous young women at this time, and these people looked terrifying to others. The same woman with the child that Mary healed let the leprous people to Mary in hopes of a cure for them as well. Mary instantly, in the name of Christ, healed these people with holy water and they were perfectly cured. All who saw praised God's power within Mary. The woman with leprosy was the wife of a prince, and the prince instantly began to love her again and thank God for the recovery of her leprosy. 

In this story, Mary stood out to me. Had she not have willfully helped the first woman's child, she would not have been successfully spreading God's miracles around from that day forward. It'd be interesting to see the story from the point of view of the first woman with a sick child, and watch this woman be denied by Mary. What would then happen to the future of believers in God?

"Jesus the Healer." From The Lost Books of the Bible, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. 1926.

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