+ Our gospel passage today finds Jesus in the early days of his public ministry already being plotted against by the Pharisees. They could sense immediately that his words and deeds were qualitatively different from any other man's. They were threatened by his ease of authority and jurisdiction over the forces of nature and soul. They erroneously saw Jesus as a threat to the established order of Judaism rather than its fulfillment. Jesus was the figure of David his ancestor come to right the world with a single blow to the forehead of Satan – but they would have him be an ordinary man with ordinary abilities and talents such as they themselves had.
One by one Jesus begins to change the lives of those whom he had come to save: today, the man with the withered hand. Hopefully the man lived a reformed life with his restored hand, hopefully he was an example for others to believe that the long-awaited Messiah had truly come, salvation, redemption and healing were now available – and would be so for the asking!
May we today believe in Jesus, ask his help, receive it when he gives it and help him continue to slay the phantom giant evil one who has already been mortally wounded by Jesus Christ, Son of God, of the House of David.
Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people.
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