As Jeffrey John explained in The Meaning in the Miracles, these and other healing stories “seem to have been deliberately selected by the evangelists to show Jesus healing at least every category of persons who, according to the purity laws of Jesus’ society, were specifically excluded and labeled unclean.”2 “Each of these healings,” he wrote, “is, of course, a demonstration of Jesus’ healing power and compassion for the individual, but that is not the main point. Uppermost in the evangelist’s mind—and far more relevant to us—is the miracle’s universal significance: the overturning of social
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