Great topic revsdd -----
revsdd ------your quote ------The issue, I think, was whether they were doing it to draw attention to themselves, or whether their main interest was those who were being healed, etc. That, I think, is a part of the reason for the "Messianic Secret" that's found mostly in Mark, where Jesus will heal someone, and then tell the person who was healed "don't tell anyone I did it." It makes the point that Jesus wasn't seeking glory.
unsafe says ----and posted scripture ---
I personally don't think that it was about Jesus seeking the glory or not seeking glory for the healing here ------ Jesus came to fulfill all the Laws -----
The scripture here you speak of is
Mark 1:43-44 ----I believe there is 2 reasons for this ------I think that this was the first healing of a leper ---He tells the man not to tell anyone but then sends him to tell the Priest for proof that he was deemed clean ---1---which fulfills the law of the lepers ---as seen in the Old Testament in Leviticus---and---2--- He felt that if the man told everyone it would take the focus off His Ministry ------and of course we see in Mark 1Verse 45 the man disobeyed Jesus and told people and Jesus couldn't enter the city -----
Leviticus 14 (NKJV)
The Ritual for Cleansing Healed Lepers
14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,2 “
This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest.3 And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine
him; and indeed,
if the leprosy is healed in the leper,4 then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living
and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
unsafe says and posted scripture ---
I personally think it isn't inappropriate for people to seek signs as long as we seeks with the proper purpose ----which would be to confirm the truthfulness of the Gospel --to bring help to those in need and to remove doubt and other hindrances to peoples Ministries ---and of course to bring Glory to God -----
The healings Jesus did had a purpose -----and scripture answers all the purposes for His Healings and Miracles -------
Healing of the sick were done in my view as part of God's redemptive plan at the time -----and Fulfilled the Prophecy in Isaiah 53 ---and Matthew 12 :15-17 says just that -----that is if you believe the Suffering Servant was Jesus ---which I do ------
Jesus Is God’s Servant ---GWT ------Many people followed him,
and he cured all of them.16 He also ordered them not to tell people who he was.17
So what the prophet Isaiah had said came true:
Greek for salvation --is Sozo --includes healing ------Strong's #4982
:sozo (pronounced sode'-zo)
from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saos, "safe"); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively
):--heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.
unsafe says and posted scripture
Miracles were preformed in my view to show Jesus had authority to forgive their sins ----to show that He was the Messiah ----and to Glorify God ----
Mark 2 (GW)
Jesus Forgives Sins
8 At once, Jesus knew inwardly what they were thinking. He asked them, “Why do you have these thoughts?9 Is it easier to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your cot, and walk’?10
I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then he said to the paralyzed man,11 “I’m telling you to get up, pick up your cot, and go home!”
I believe His raising of Lazarus was showing His power over death -----this is just my spiritual view on that ----
John 5:21 (AMP)
21 Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life[and allows them to live on],even so
the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
