The Bible reveals that Jesus healed many people during His lifetime. History confirms this.

During Jesus’s life on earth as a human being He healed many people. He went about healing the sick and lame every where He went. He healed miraculously and by compassion.

You can find healings of Jesus mentioned throughout the Gospels in the New Testament.

The New Testament Bible shows that Jesus did a lot of healing miracles during his lifetime. Click here to see miracles Jesus did.

Jesus was, and still is, the divine Healer.

History reveals that Jesus is famous for many things. First, He performed miracles that could not be explained or dismissed in human terms. Some of His miracles included: healing people, turning water into wine, multiplying loaves and fishes, walking on water, seeing into a person’s past and future, bringing people back from the dead and being resurrected. 

Jesus is also famous for His Words or His Word as found in the Bible. His sayings were radical and often offended those who were self-righteous. Other sayings were mysterious such as, “Let he who has ears, hear.” His philosophy was often radically different than man’s religion or human philosophy. For example, He stated that to have life, one must lose one’s life.” In the Gospel of John, Jesus claimed to be “the resurrection and the life  (John 11:35, NKJV). Such sayings are extraordinary and make Him well-known. 

Jesus is famous for His compassion. He healed people out of compassion. He wept over the city of Jerusalem with compassion. 

Jesus is especially famous for dying on the cross for the sins of mankind and then resurrecting. Over 500 people saw Jesus in His resurrected form as recorded in many historic narrations and chronicles. Many skeptics and incredulous people also saw Jesus alive from the dead.

Paul the Apostle describes Jesus as being risen from the dead. Read that story here.

Jesus is famous for forgiving wrongdoing or sin. He is famous for having the power to forgive and the unique Son of God, and for choosing to forgive out of love for mankind. He is famous for being the way in which mankind can receive forgiveness since He died in the place of sinners (all mankind). 

Jesus is also famous for being the Messiah, the one who was expected and spoken of in the Old Testament Bible, the Jewish scriptures or writings. His life and death were prophesied as were the hardships He bore for mankind.

Jesus death on the cross—for which He was famous—can be seen prophesied in Psalm 22 is one example. Here is another, found in Isaiah 53; verses 3, 4 and 5:

“Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from Him, He was despised and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted,

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed” (NKJV).

There is no suggestion in the Bible that Jesus had long hair. He would have had the average, ordinary and acceptable length of hair since we know He looked ordinary. Jews of His ear wore their hair down to their shoulders or just above. They did not wear short hair as many men do today. Still it was not long as such. And it certainly was not long for that time, and that culture. 

Pictures in art where we see a Jesus with very long hair are purely fictional and not based on the facts of the era.

Jesus loved children. At one time some children wanted to come to Him and the disciples (Jesus’ close followers) rebuked them and turned them away. 

Jesus said this of children in the New Testament Gospel of Mark:

“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:14, NKJV).

In the New Testament Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said this of children:

“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kindom of heaven.

And whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives me” (Matthew 18: 3, 4, 5, NKJV). 

When Jesus healed Jairus’s daughter, and brought her back to life when she was dead, He immediately asked for food for her. He loves children and cares for them deeply.

According to History as well as the New and Old Testaments in the Bible, Jesus was a Jew. He was Jewish like His birth mother and adopted father. He was of Jewish stock or lineage. Jesus was actually a descendent of King David.

The Bible also tells us—as Jesus did Himself—that He was and is the Son of God. Therefore, He was and is also a citizen of Heaven. 

The loving nature of Jesus would suggest He liked animals.

While I cannot think of a specific passage of the New Testamant that clearly shows that Jesus liked animals, His character would suggest He did. Jesus was kind, compassionate, merciful, tender and loving. He did not encourage cruelty; He opposed it.

Because Jesus was love incarnated and God incarnated, I imagine that He did like animals. This deduction would seem to be in standing with His divine character and attributes.

Jesus taught everywhere He went. He was known as “the Teacher” – “Raboni” in Hebrew. He taught His disciples every day. He taught the crowds who followed Him, including the 5, 000 that he then fed when they were hungry. He taught at the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapter 5 in the New Testament). He taught also in parables (see Matthew chapter 13 in the New Testament).

Jesus taught Words of life and of truth. At 12 years of age, He read the Old Testament scriptures in the Temple. This was a small glimpse of His great teaching ministry.

Sometimes Jesus taught in a way that made the religious, self-righteous people uncomfortable. His teaching challenged them. It was simple, yet profound. In the Gospel of John, chapter 6 verse 66, some of the people stopped following Jesus because His sayings – or teachings – were too hard. They did not understand the spiritual implications and divine depth of His teaching.

Jesus still heals people today. He still feels the pain of individuals and has compassion. He heals today using diverse methods. Jesus may use the intervention of a doctor to heal since He gave the doctor the gift to learn medicine. He may heal through a divine and supernatural touch through prayer. In James chapter 5, the Bible says that the fervent prayer of the righteous (those who know Jesus) can bring healing.

Sometimes people pray for healing and are healed. Other times, they may be healed during an assembly where God’s Word is being preached, or during a prayer meeting when people are praying for the sick. 

God does not always choose to heal. He can heal but sometimes He has a purpose in a person remaining handicapped or sickly. For example, Joni Earickson Tada was never healed from being a paraplegic. But her invalid state has allowed her to reach thousands of handicapped people in wheelchairs through her testimony. To read more about Joni and her testimony, click here. 

The Bible teaches that Jesus was God who became man. He felt our pain. He bore our griefs. He sympathized and He empathized. He healed out of compassion. He did not want to see mankind suffer. He did not delight in seeing individuals suffer. His love compelled Him to heal people.

Jesus healed because He is good and He is love. He healed from compassion because He had the power to heal.

Jesus healed because He loved mankind.