For What Purpose Were The Miracles Of Healing Recorded?

 "Now let us take some illustrations of the power of faith to deliver from bondage. We will quote Luke 13:10-17:

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in nowise lift up herself. 

And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 

And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath-day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work; in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath-day. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? and ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day? 

And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

We may pass by the carping of the hypocritical ruler, to consider the miracle. 

The woman was bound; we, through fear of death, have been all our life-time subject to bondage. 

Satan had bound the woman; 

Satan has also set snares for our feet 

and has brought us into captivity. 

She could in nowise lift up herself; our iniquities have taken hold of us, so that we are not able to look up. Ps. 40:12. With a word and a touch Jesus set the woman free from her infirmities; we have the same merciful High Priest now in the heavens, who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and the same word will deliver us from evil.

Q: For what purpose were the miracles of healing recorded, which were performed by Jesus? 

John tells us. 

A: It was not simply to show that He can heal disease but to show His power over sin. See Matt. 9:2-8. But John says:

And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his

disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. John 20:30, 31.

So we see that they are recorded simply as object lessons of Christ's love, of His willingness to relieve, and of His power over the works of Satan, no matter whether in the body or in the soul."  

E.J. Waggoner