Evening: Psalm 119:73-96; John 5:1-18
We regard the ‘healing miracles’ of Jesus as if healing is their main theme. But with the man at the pool, the story is about two other themes too: 1. For 38 years no-one helps this isolated man; and 2. Jesus offends the legalists by healing him on the Sabbath. Jesus’s healing action here is a protest against inhumane laws that forbid healing on certain days but make no provision for the well-being of a paralyzed man. Jesus attends to the law’s true goal ... a just society, which isolates no-one and provides humane assistance for all who need it.
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