Big Healing Book - Matthew 14:35-36

Matthew 14:35-36:

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

Notes on Matthew 14:35-36:

Again, the sick were brought to Jesus. Jesus did not just go around automatically healing everyone. On many occasions like this one, power went out of Jesus and healed all who touched Him. We know from the story of the woman with the issue of blood that Jesus would not necessarily know who touched Him! It was not His faith in operation. It was the healing anointing on Him – Peter said that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; that is how He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38). The very word Christ means “Anointed.” (It is not Jesus’ last name; He did not grow up in the home of Joseph and Mary Christ. He was not in some papyrus census record as “Christ, Jesus.”) The power of the Holy Spirit, coupled with faith in those who came to be healed, produced healing in all who came to receive it.

You can see how Jesus could not have made exceptions for some of the sick, expecting them to stay that way for some modern theological reason. The anointing was available to anyone; all you had to do was get near enough to Jesus to touch His clothes! Jesus did not decide who would touch His garment and receive healing – the people decided whether or not to go where He was and touch His garment.