Article January 8, 1955 Issue

THE IMMEDIACY OF JESUS' HEALING

MARGARET CASE PAULUS

"As soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed" (Mark 1:42).

In this account of Jesus' healing of a leper who came to him begging to be made whole, the word "immediately" is used to describe the instantaneous healing the man experienced. A study of the records of healings brought about by Jesus will show that the word "immediately" is often used. Some of the more familiar examples include the healing of Simon Peter's wife's mother (Mark 1:31); the healing of the impotent man by the pool of Bethesda (John 5:9); and the healing of the woman with the issue of blood (Luke 8:44) .

"Why," someone may ask, "was Jesus able to heal instantaneously, while nowadays people sometimes have to continue treatment for a long period of time before experiencing a complete healing?" Perhaps the answer to this question may be found in the following statement from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

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