Jesus’ ministry was one of healing. He said, "I came to minister to the sick and not the well." He never refused or failed to heal anyone who came to him in need.

There is no doubt about it: Christ constantly performed miracles of healing. His miracles were all tied in with love and forgiveness and produced whole persons in a new relationship with God and with life.

J. B. Phillips, in one of his last books, shares his own understanding of the miracles of Jesus. He says that these miracles are revealed glimpses into ultimate reality. The miracles of healing declare that there is no sickness in heaven. The healing miracles of Jesus are relevations of the ultimate health created by God’s love and power, breaking in upon the incomplete present world.

Here is one day in the life of Jesus as re…