“But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew Himself from thence: and great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all;” (Matthew 12:15)
This Scripture is linked to the previous one by thought and to the following ones by grammar. Jesus knew the Pharisees were planning to kill Him. (Matthew 12:14) They “held” council, their hypocrisy taking over their judgement. It was the sabbath and they were planning to kill an innocent person. One can almost feel the rage and hatred of the demonic influence that drove them to even take counsel with the Herodians. (Mark 3:6) The Herodians were politically opposed to the Pharisees. Although they were Jews, they supported Herod. But they found common ground in their opposition to Jesus.
And Jesus knew it. That word that was translated “knew” means to feel and perceive with certainty. Jesus didn’t need anyone to bring Him news that they were planning to kill Him. He knew it by the Holy Spirit. And He left that place knowing that if they had an opportunity, they would kill Him before His time. God has a perfect time and a perfect manner in which His Will is to be carried out. God’s Word is precise. His time is exact. We need to wait on the Lord for His perfect time. We struggle because we’re anxious and want things to happen on our time. But God has a perfect time. What may seem like a delay to us is not a delay, but the Lord adjusting all the details so that at the perfect time, things will be accomplished as He wills.
The Scripture states that great multitudes followed Jesus as He left. It wasn’t just a large crowd of people, but great multitudes. That must have been a sight. These were not just people from Capernaum. “But Jesus withdrew Himself with His disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judaea, And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things He did, came unto Him.” (Mark 3: 7, 8) All this was by word of mouth. There was great need for God’s touch and healing, spiritually and physically.
“...and He healed them all.” Jesus healed them all. The Word of God is specific, all meaning everyone, whosoever. Remember that sickness of any kind is not from God. God may allow sickness in our lives for His purposes, but God did not create man to be sick. Sickness is an expression of sin. This is not to mean that the person who is sick is sinful. This means that it’s a result of this sinful world. It’s an abnormality of God’s creation. God’s creation is perfect. It’s God’s Will for us to be healed and to walk in perfect health. When Jesus walked on earth, He saw this abnormality. It must have been an aversion for Him to see His Father’s perfect creation ravished by the sinful elements of this world. “...and He healed them all.”
Healing man is so important to the Lord. After the Lord delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians, He tells them, “And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” (Exodus 15:26) This healing was conditional and depended on their obedience. Unconditional healing would come with the Messiah. Isaiah prophesies about Him, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) The Messiah would come and take our diseases upon Himself, so that we could be healed for any sickness that would come against us.
And He came and healed those who were sick in any form. And Jesus took our punishment for sin, the stripes for our healing and shed His blood for our cleansing from sin. Peter writes, “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” (1Peter 2:24) We were healed. It’s already done in heaven. Let His Will be done on earth as it is in heaven! “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1John 1:7) Jesus is our Healer, spirit, soul and body.
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