“And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.”
So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. The fame of Jesus spreads beyond Galilee into Syria — the Gentile territory to the north — and the crowds that come to him already transcend the borders of Jewish Palestine. The list of conditions he heals is comprehensive: various diseases, pains, demonic oppression, seizures, paralysis. The comprehensiveness communicates that there is no category of human affliction outside the scope of the kingdom's restoration. Psalm 103:3 praises the God who heals all your diseases — Jesus enacts what the psalm celebrates. Syria is also the territory from which the Assyrian oppression came; the healing of Syrians enacts the reversal of judgment into blessing.
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