OUR FATHER WHO SENT HIS SON TO SAVE US

Leaving the towns by the Mediteranian Sea, the Lord Jesus travelled inland again and went around the edge of the sea of Galilee to an elevated position and sat down there.

The people from all the surrounding areas came with their friends and relatives who had various afflictions like blindness and the inability to talk as described in Matthew chapter 15 verses 29 - 31.

29 Jesus departed from there, skirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down there. 30 Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them. 31 So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

With Jesus healing all the people from their ailments, He was fulfilling the prophecy of  Isaiah chapter 35 verses 4 - 6 which desribes the arrival of God as the salvation of Israel as being distinct because it would be accompanied by the healing of the afflictions of the people.

4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear!

Behold, your God will come with vengeance,

With the recompense of God; He will come and save you.” 

5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing.

For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert.

Amen.

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