Then again, did they not have equal reason to feel at peace? By this point in their experience with Jesus, they had seen him heal leprosy (Matt. 8:3), heal the centurion’s servant without going to the servant’s bedside (Matt. 8:13), heal Peter’s mother-in-law (Matt. 8:15), calm a violent sea (Matt. 8:26), heal a paralytic (Matt. 9:6–7), heal a woman who had been sick for twelve years (Matt. 9:22), raise a girl from the dead (Matt. 9:25), drive out an evil spirit (Mark 1:25), heal a demon-possessed man in a cemetery (Mark 5:15), change water into wine (John 2:9), and heal a man who had been an
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