Letters from Adina - #14a

Letter XIV. Healing the Cripple

Healing the Basket Maker

My Dear Father,

You will not require the testimony of my letters to carry to you the fame of Jesus, the wonderful Prophet of Nazareth, who is daily proving Himself a prophet indeed, and mighty before God, showing all the people that God is with Him.

Not a stranger cometh into Jerusalem but he brings the report of some new miracle which He hath done, some wonderful manifestation of His power.

His fame for wisdom, for knowledge of the Scriptures, for power to teach, and for miracles, has gone abroad through all Syria, so that they bring to Him sick persons, both rich and poor, even from Damascus, to be healed of Him; and He heals all who are brought unto Him, whether they are possessed of devils, are lunatics, or are sick of the palsy.

His footsteps are attended by thousands, wheresoever he goes, and even the Governor of Philippi, descending by the wayside from his chariot, hath mingled in the throng, and kneeling at His feet, asked Him to heal his son, who was palsied; and his son was healed by Him by a word, though lying sick many leagues away.

There is a man a weaver of baskets, who has occupied a stall opposite our house for many years.

He had been a cripple for twelve years, and his friends carried him to and fro.

Hearing of the fame of Jesus, he was seized with a strong conviction that he might be miraculously cured.

Therefore he begged money from the priests, as they went by to the Temple, but though some gave, all laughed, saying that he could not be cured, inasmuch as one of his limbs was withered.

But the man had faith, and having begged from the benevolent silver enough for his journey, hired two men to convey him five days’ journey into Galilee.

Lo! at the end of three weeks he returned, walking upright, and whole in body and limbs!

All the city flocked to behold him, and he related that how when he had reached Capernaum, where Jesus was, the crowd was so’ great that his bearers could not for some time get near him.

At length, Jesus moved on, healing the sick with a word as he passed through them.

“Seeing me,’’ continued the man, ‘‘He fixed his eyes upon me, and said, calling me by name —

“Great is thy faith: As thou hast believed, be it done unto thee.”  

“Immediately my legs and ankle-bones received strength; I leaped from the litter to the ground, and found that I was wholly free from pain and disease, and that my shrunken limb was restored sound as the other.”

I would have fallen at His feet in fullness of my joy, but the crowds which pressed around Him separated Him from my sight.

But I filled the air with shouts of rejoicing and hallelujahs to the Son of David!”

This man, my dear father, I now see daily, moving about, sound in limb and health: but this one instance is but one of a thousand.

John, who follows Jesus everywhere he goes, and is a witness of all that he does and teaches, writes to Mary, that “the sick and afflicted from all parts of the land of Galilee, from Decapolis, from Jerusalem, from beyond Jordan, even from Lesser Asia, come to Him.”

And what is a marvelous thing,’’ continues John, ‘‘the devils always rage with more terrific violence as He draws near, and while with curses they leave the possessed, they confess loudly that Jesus is ‘the Son of David —the Son of God!’ and implore Him, in the most abject manner, not utterly to destroy them!

So great is the multitude which everywhere follows Him, that he is often compelled to withdraw from them secretly, to take refuge in some shelter, where He can refresh His wearied strength for a few days.

At such times we, who are His immediate followers, have the benefit of His teaching and private instructions.

But He cannot remain long away from the people. They soon break upon his retirement, and He never can refuse their appeals to His miraculous powers to do them good.

How wonderful is He who thus holds in His hands divine power! The authority of kings is nothing before the might which’ He possesses in His voice; yet He is serene; humble, - oh, how humble! - to our shame, - and calm and gentle always.

He spends much time in private prayer to God, whom he always addresses as His Father.

Never was such a man on earth.

We, who know Him most intimately, stand most in awe of Him; yet, with our deep reverence for his holy character is combined the purest affection.

In one and the same time, I feel that I adore Him as my Lord, and love Him, even as my brother. Thus we all feel towards Him.

His loving kindness, His pity for our ignorance, His forbearance with our grossness, His ready patience for us when we are in fault, all have bound us to him with ties that can never be sundered.

When I next write to you,’’ continues John, “I will relate to you, so far as they are understood by me and my fellow-disciples the things which He reveals respecting Himself and the object of His mission on earth. Many of His sayings, however, are not understood by us, but He promises that we shall by-and-by know what now appears obscure to us.”

Such, my dear father, are the letters which my cousin Mary receives from John, the disciple of Jesus.

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