We will now conclude Ch.
9 of this study, picking up in vs. 18; the Messiah is continuing in
His ministry of healing when He comes across yet another person in
need. This time it turns out to be one of the religious authorities,
the ones that opposed Him nearly at every turn. Yet, our LORD, humble
and meek will go and serve this man's dire need, and heal his
daughter of the illness that threatens her life...
MATTHEW
9:18-21
18
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain
ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but
come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. 19
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. 20
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood
twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 21
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall
be whole. 22
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter,
be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was
made whole from that hour.
By James Fire
Scripture
speaks abundantly of the Divinely empowered healing abilities of the
Messiah of Israel. Such passages from Isaiah and elsewhere (as we
have seen in Ch. 8 in our study) reveal that the Messiah would make
the lame man leap for joy, the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and
the dumb to speak (ISAIAH 35:5-6).
These miraculous signs would be
evidence to prove who the Messiah-King would be. As mentioned before,
it's very much like the story of The
LORD of the RINGS
where Aragorn the lowly Ranger from the North was identified as the
King of Gondor because he was able to heal, which would be an
attribute of a true King of that realm:
“Aragorn's humility and
self-sacrifice gained him the hearts of the inhabitants of Gondor's
capital city. His healing abilities were noted also by the people of
Gondor; as Loreth said, 'The hands of the King are the hands of a
healer, and so shall the rightful king be known'. The people hailed
Aragorn as King that same evening.” (Taken from wikipedia –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn).
