Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it done to you. The faith-responsive healing: according to your faith. The formula does not make faith the mechanism that produces the healing but the orientation toward Jesus that receives what he gives. Mark 9:23 says everything is possible for one who believes — the faith that receives is the faith that orients entirely toward the one who gives. The touch of the eyes — the specific organ that is being healed — is intimate and precise. Jesus' healing touches are always specific: the hand of Peter's mother-in-law, the fringe of the garment for the hemorrhaging woman, the eyes of the blind men.

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