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When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her: "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus had healed on Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work.
Luke's Jesus says "My child, get up!"; Matthew's Jesus is silent. The accounts in Mark and Luke end with Jesus' commands that the girl should be fed and that Jairus and his wife should tell no-one what had happened. On the other hand, Matthew concludes the narrative by saying: "News of this spread through all that region." [5]: 62
Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
Jesus healing the sick by Gustave Dore, (19th century) According to the Gospel of Mark, as Jesus passes through Gennesaret, just after the account of him walking on water, all those who touch the edge, or hem, or fringe of his cloak are healed: "When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there.
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder print, as it has become known, has been famous since his own day for the extraordinarily high price it fetched. A letter to Carolus van den Bosch, the Bishop of Bruges, in 1654, only a few years after it was completed, claimed that "in Holland [it] has been sold various times for 100 guilders and more", saying it was "very fine and lovely, but ought to cost 30 ...
Such therefore is not one which is spoken pleasantly, to console the afflicted, or to exhilarate those who are sick and sad. Neither is it one which teaches human wisdom, as when the words and deeds of others are related, with this end, that, from them, we may learn to act and speak prudently."
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In most cases, Christian authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. [10]In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water).