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Health, Body & Physical Life
Care, Healing & Wholeness. Browse 96 teachings across 2 topics, each with its cited Scripture.
Health, Sickness & the Body
- Whoever follows Jesus will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.John 8:12.
- Life is more than food and the body more than clothing.Matthew 6:25; Luke 12:22-23.
- Defilement comes fundamentally from the heart rather than food entering the body.Matthew 15:10-20; Mark 7:14-23.
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast out demons as freely given ministry.Matthew 10:8.
- Do not fear persecutors merely because they can kill the body.Matthew 10:26-28; Luke 12:4-5.
- The Twelve were given authority over demons and disease.Matthew 10:1; Mark 6:7; Luke 9:1.
- The Twelve were to proclaim the kingdom and heal.Luke 9:2.
- They were to heal the sick and announce God's kingdom had come near.Luke 10:9.
- Healing and liberating a bound person on the Sabbath is appropriate.Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6.
- Food entering the body is not the ultimate source of moral defilement.Mark 7:18-19; Matthew 15:17.
- Jesus answers criticism for eating with sinners by saying the sick need a physician and he came to call sinners.Matthew 9:10-13; Mark 2:15-17; Luke 5:29-32.
- Jesus answers Sabbath-healing objections by asking whether it is lawful to do good and save life.Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11.
- Religious leaders become blind guides when tradition displaces God's command.Matthew 15:12-14.
- If the blind lead the blind, both fall into a pit.Matthew 15:14; Luke 6:39.
- Woe to blind guides who manipulate oath rules.Matthew 23:16-22.
- Woe to outward cleansing that leaves greed and self-indulgence inside.Matthew 23:25-26.
- Jesus laments Jerusalem's unwillingness to be gathered under his protection.Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 13:34-35.
- Claiming spiritual sight while rejecting truth leaves a person accountable for blindness.John 9:39-41.
- The returning unclean spirit warns that empty reform can end worse than the beginning.Matthew 12:43-45; Luke 11:24-26.
- The paralytic's healing demonstrates Jesus' authority to forgive sins.Matthew 9:2-8; Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26.
- The healed demoniac is told to proclaim what God has done for him.Mark 5:19; Luke 8:39.
- Blind men are healed in relation to their faith in Jesus' ability.Matthew 9:27-30.
- Congenital suffering is not always a simple punishment for a person's or parents' personal sin.John 9:1-3.
- Suffering can become an occasion for God's works to be displayed.John 9:3.
- Jesus' glorification arrives through suffering and death.John 12:23-28; 13:31-32.
- The bread of the final meal signifies Jesus' body given for his disciples.Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19.
- Gethsemane models honest lament joined to submission to the Father's will.Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46.
- The Law, Prophets, and Psalms point to the Messiah's suffering and resurrection.Luke 24:44-46.
- Show yourself to the priest and offer what Moses commanded after cleansing.Matthew 8:4; Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14.
- Keep certain healings temporarily quiet when Jesus specifically commands it.Matthew 8:4; 9:30; 12:16; Mark 1:44; 5:43; 7:36; 8:26.
- Rise, take your bed, and go home.Matthew 9:6; Mark 2:11; Luke 5:24.
- Bring the afflicted boy to Jesus.Matthew 17:17; Mark 9:19; Luke 9:41.
- Rise, take up your bed, and walk.John 5:8.
- Sin no more, lest something worse happen, in the healed man's specific warning.John 5:14.
- Wash in the pool of Siloam.John 9:7.
- Jesus' body is the true temple that will be raised after being destroyed.John 2:19-21.
- Circumcision and Sabbath practice expose inconsistency in condemning Jesus for healing on the Sabbath.John 7:22-23.
- The works of God can be displayed through suffering that is not simple punishment for personal sin.John 9:1-3.
- Jesus came for a judgment that reverses presumed sight and blindness.John 9:39.
- Walk while you have the light so darkness does not overtake you.John 12:35.
- Jesus' word cleanses disciples.John 15:3.
Food, Fasting & Physical Needs
- Human beings do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from God.Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4.
- Jesus is the bridegroom whose presence changes the fitting time for fasting.Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:19-20; Luke 5:34-35.
- Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to him for rest.Matthew 11:28-30.
- Jesus' food is to do the will of the One who sent him and finish his work.John 4:34.
- Jesus is the bread of life.John 6:35, 48.
- Whoever comes to Jesus will not hunger, and whoever believes in him will not thirst.John 6:35.
- Jesus is the living bread from heaven, given for the life of the world.John 6:51.
- Jesus says his flesh is true food and his blood true drink.John 6:53-58.
- Many are invited to the kingdom banquet, but not all respond rightly.Matthew 22:1-14; Luke 14:15-24.
- Work for food that endures to eternal life, not only perishable food.John 6:27.
- Fasting should not advertise spirituality.Matthew 6:16-18.
- Life is more than food and the body more than clothing.Matthew 6:25; Luke 12:22-23.
- Even a cup of cold water given because someone is a disciple will not lose its reward.Matthew 10:42; Mark 9:41.
- The lost can be dead and become alive again through restoration.Luke 15:24, 32.
- Compassion for the hungry should become practical provision.Matthew 14:16; Mark 6:37; Luke 9:13.
- Feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, care for the sick, and visit the imprisoned.Matthew 25:35-40.
- A cup given because someone belongs to Christ is remembered by God.Mark 9:41.
- Ask for daily bread and necessary provision.Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3.
- Fast without advertising your discomfort.Matthew 6:16-18.
- Fasting has an appropriate place after the bridegroom is taken away.Matthew 9:14-15; Mark 2:18-20; Luke 5:33-35.
- Follow Jesus and become fishers of people.Matthew 4:19; Mark 1:17.
- David's consecrated-bread episode shows that legal interpretation must account for human need.Matthew 12:3-4; Mark 2:25-26; Luke 6:3-4.
- Food entering the body is not the ultimate source of moral defilement.Mark 7:18-19; Matthew 15:17.
- Jesus answers fasting criticism by identifying himself as the bridegroom.Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39.
- The wedding banquet teaches that refusing God's invitation brings judgment and receiving it calls for a fitting response.Matthew 22:1-14.
- The great banquet teaches that excuses can exclude the privileged while the marginalized receive God's invitation.Luke 14:15-24.
- The prodigal son teaches repentance, lavish welcome, and restoration of the lost.Luke 15:11-24.
- The disciples are told to give the hungry crowd something to eat.Matthew 14:16; Mark 6:37; Luke 9:13.
- Seeking Jesus only because of material bread misses the deeper sign.John 6:26-27.
- The bread of the final meal signifies Jesus' body given for his disciples.Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19.
- Eat the bread in remembrance of Jesus.Matthew 26:26; Luke 22:19.
- The cup signifies Jesus' blood of the covenant, poured out for many.Matthew 26:27-28; Mark 14:23-24.
- The cup is the new covenant in Jesus' blood.Luke 22:20.
- Drink from the covenant cup.Matthew 26:27.
- Jesus will drink the fruit of the vine again in the kingdom's future fulfillment.Matthew 26:29; Mark 14:25; Luke 22:18.
- Passover points forward to fulfillment in God's kingdom.Luke 22:15-18.
- Accept the cup the Father gives rather than resisting by violence.John 18:11.
- Give the crowds something to eat.Matthew 14:16; Mark 6:37; Luke 9:13.
- Bring the available loaves and fish to Jesus.Matthew 14:18.
- Take and eat the bread of the Lord's Supper.Matthew 26:26.
- Do the meal in remembrance of Jesus.Luke 22:19.
- Rest for a while after demanding ministry.Mark 6:31.
- Follow the man carrying water and arrange the Passover room.Mark 14:13-15; Luke 22:10-12.
- Prepare the Passover meal.Matthew 26:18-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:8-13.
- Do not be anxious about food or clothing.Luke 12:22-29.
- Take the lowest seat rather than self-promoting at a banquet.Luke 14:8-10.
- Invite the poor and those unable to repay when giving a banquet.Luke 14:12-14.
- Work for food that endures to eternal life.John 6:27.
- If anyone thirsts, come to Jesus and drink.John 7:37.
- Bring some of the fish just caught.John 21:10.
- Come and eat breakfast.John 21:12.
- Worship will not be restricted to Gerizim or Jerusalem.John 4:21.
- The crowd's pursuit of Jesus merely for bread exposes shallow motives.John 6:26.
- The Father, not Moses, is the ultimate giver of bread from heaven.John 6:32.
- The true bread from heaven gives life to the world.John 6:33.
- The bread Jesus gives leads to life beyond the manna that could not prevent death.John 6:49-51.
- The bread from heaven surpasses ancestral manna.John 6:58.
- Jesus is compassionate toward crowds who are harassed, hungry, sick, or shepherdless.Matthew 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; Mark 6:34; 8:2.