Healing is the Children's Bread
Mark 6:5-6
And he could there do no mighty work save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them and he marveled because of their unbelief
Comments: Mark 6:5-6 Jesus marveled at their unbelief. These days it is an amazing thing if someone believes in healing and miracles, but Jesus was astounded that the people around him didn’t believe. To him, it should have been a given.
And he successfully passed this on to his disciples. Mark did not consider healing a few sick folk mighty works. Healing is the children’s bread. Jesus said it, and his followers took it for granted, at the very least Mark did.
Mark 7: 26 The woman was a Greek a Syrophoenician by nation and she implored him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter 27: But Jesus said to her Let the children first be filled for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs 28: And she answered and said to him Yes Lord yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs 29: And he said to her For this saying go thy way the devil is gone out of thy daughter 30: And when she was come to her house she found the devil gone out and her daughter laid upon the bed
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