Jesus Healed
Mark 1:40-42
40: And there came a leper
to him beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If
thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
41: And Jesus, moved with
compassion, out forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I
will, be thou clean.
42: And as soon as he had
spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Chieko
Okazaki -former counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“I
have spoken with other dozens of women who have temple marriages, active
husbands, and children—blessings for which single sisters sometimes long—but
who also feel like lost coins because there are other dimensions of their
lives in which they feel inadequate and for which they feel censured, judged,
excluded, and rejected.
“Something
is wrong with this picture. The Savior did not go around making distinctions
between individuals. He preached the gospel to all. He healed all.
He loved everyone. True, he knew that there were the sinners and the righteous,
but he did not turn away the ‘many publicans and sinners [who] came and
sat down with him and his disciples.’ Instead, he reminded the judgmental
Pharisees, ‘They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are
sick’ (Matthew 9:10-12). True, he knew about the sheep and goats,
wheat and tares, and warned that someday there would come a great separation.
But he did not authorize anyone else to make that separation or to cast
anyone out before that final judgment came.” (Sanctuary, 45.)
Matthew
9:25
25:
He went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. (Jesus
brought Jairus' 12 year old daughter back to life.)
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