I find it astounding that Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law so fully and completely she immediately rose from her sickbed and started waiting on everyone:

When Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him.

Not only minus a fever, but now filled with so much energy she could not sit still. This woman exploded off the couch, her gift of hospitality on red alert.

Jesus healed all those brought to him. Not just salved their wounds and set them on a path to better living, but sent them off leaping and dancing.

No one else does that.

Matthew 8 in reading the Bible in 2023

Photo by Joshua Earle