The Healing of the Centurion’s Servant
According to the New International Version, Jesus miraculously healed a Roman soldier’s servant just by a word of mouth. When Jesus was in Capernaum, he got a message from the centurion to heal his beloved servant (Van der Loos, H., 2005). As a strong believer who acknowledged his sinful nature, he only pleaded with Jesus to send a word in order to heal his servant (Luke 7:1-10). Jesus concurred with him and sent a word which later healed the ailing servant.
As a Christian, I believe in the personality of Jesus. In deed, He performed miracles. It is true that the servant was healed. Meaning, healing actually took place as recorded in this book. Jesus was a Messiah who had come to deliver the oppressed from their yokes of agonies. A part from the centurion’s servant, He healed so many other people including the leper, the paralyzed man, the man possessed by demons and blind men, to mention, but a few. As a powerful God, He had to prove his strength over nature by performing mysterious miracles (Clowes, J., 2000).
However, the act of healing is about faith. This implies that the actual healing process can only be comprehended through faith. Even if many scholars refute the falsity of miracles by saying that a loving God can not treat people unequally by solving others’ problems through miracles, the fact is that the authenticity of miracles can not be scientifically proven. It is a matter of faith. After all, Jesus also pegged the success of His healings to the beneficiaries’ faith. In fact, after healing this servant, He praised the centurion’s faith when He said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel."(Matthew 8:10).
Works Cited
Clowes, J. (2000) The Miracles of Jesus Christ. Manchester: J. Gleave Publishers.
Van der Loos, H. (2005) The Miracles of Jesus. The Hague: E.J. Brill Press.
