In Matthew 9, back in his hometown of Capernaum, once again Jesus heals a paralytic.
By forgiving his sins, his spirit was healed.
With the spirit healed, the body was healed.
This is similar to Chinese Medicine where the Mind and Qi is healed so that the body is healed.
But in the case of psychological guilt, it can take many physical forms that have various effects on the body.
Attempts to heal the body or heal the Qi, won’t work.
Only by removing the psychological guilt through forgiveness can, first the Mind, and then the body be healed.
Matthew was a tax collector sitting at the customs house.
When Jesus called to him, he got up and followed him.
Once again, this says nothing about any previous familiarity between Jesus and his disciples.
So, nearly every Bible reader for the past two thousand years has assumed that this was some sort of miracle where Jesus called a complete stranger to join him.
In the small towns, everybody knew everybody else.
So, although the Scriptures gives the impression of some great, mystical calling of Jesus to total strangers who became disciples, the actual case was that all of these people already knew each other and knew of each other’s spiritual interests.
No doubt, they had had long conversations with one another.
And they knew why they were called.
Jesus brought us something entirely new.
Unlike the new patch that is sewn onto old cloth or the new wine put into old wine skins, Jesus is unlike these examples.
He was not patching the holes in Judaism (of which there were more holes than actual rags) but rather he was bringing a new message which would cause the old false teachings of Judaism to be null and void. (Mat 9:14-17)
Matthew 9 (KJV) – Then came to him the
It was new wine for the thirsty, and it required new wine skins, not the old goatskins of Judaism.
A woman with a hemorrhage touched his cloak and was healed, such was her faith and his Qi power. (Mat 9:21)
Matthew 9 (KJV) – For she said within herself,
Once again, Jesus had no doubt met the daughter of Jairus, who was the head of the synagogue.
The raising of Jairus’ daughter is a reported miracle of Jesus that occurs in the synoptic Gospels, where it is interwoven with the account of the healing of a bleeding woman. The narratives can be found in Mark 5:21–43, Matthew 9:18–26 and Luke 8:40–56.
There can be no doubt about this.
In his own small town, he would surely have already known this girl who had the power to feign death in a catatonic seizure.
He revived her and cured her of her obsession with death.
He healed the blind and the dumb.
Matthew was there as a witness.
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