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During the earthly life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ he healed many people of physical ailments. He did not heal every sick person with whom he came into contact. Many times he seemed to heal at large, but at other times he selected an individual out of a group and healed only the individual. One example of this is the man by the pool of Bethesda (John 5;1-15).
Sometimes, but not always, the healing was done in response to faith demonstrated either by the sick person or by someone else. Blind Bartimaeus was healed because of his own faith (Mark 10:46-52), but the palsied man in Mark 2:1-12 was healed because of the faith of his friends, and the centurion’s servant in Luke 7:110 was healed because of the faith of his master. The man at the pool of Bethesda was healed when he as yet had no faith. He did not even know who Jesus was at the time of his healing.
Sometimes he did not heal. The other sick people at the pool of Bethesda were not worse sinners than the man who was healed, and the healed man did not have faith until afterwards. Jesus chose to heal one out of many and we do not know why. We do know that he healed to demonstrate the power of God and to bring glory to God. Sometimes he chose not to heal for the same reasons. Paul is the classic example, with his “thorn in the flesh.” Whatever this was, God did not heal it, but rather chose to give Paul the grace to trust God and serve God de
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