Luke – references in Science & Health part 3

·        Luke 8:52 Jesus’ ministry was always very active.  He returned by ship from Gadara and had been gladly received by a bunch of people when a distraught synagogue ruler (Jairus) begs him to come to his home because his twelve year-old daughter is dying.  Then along comes the woman who reaches out and touches his garment and is healed (we spoke of her in the previous post here), when suddenly someone from Jairus’ household runs up and tells Jairus that it’s too late because the girl has already died.  How then could Jesus say: “Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole”?   

The party continues on to Jairus’ home and Jesus insists that only Peter, James, John plus the girl’s parents may come in.  Of course, outside the home there is a terrific din of weeping and wailing “but he said, Weep not; she is not dead but sleepeth”.  He does not diagnose or suggest a name for the problem, but pretty soon the girl is alive and well and ready to eat something.

S&H 398: 9 “Often he gave no name to the distemper he cured.  To the synagogue ruler’s daughter, whom they called dead but of whom he said, “she is not dead, but sleepeth,” he simply said, “Damsel, I say unto thee, arise!”

·        Luke 9: 9 News of Jesus’ healing must have spread like wildfire.  Who was he?  How did he do this? Herod had been tricked into beheading John the Baptist, and it haunted him.  Now he’s wondering if the stories were true that Jesus was really John, risen from the dead.  “And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things?”

 S&H 136: 9 “The question then as now was, How did Jesus heal the sick?  His answer to this question the world rejected.  He appealed to his students: “Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?”  That is: Who or what is it that is that is thus identified with casting out evils and healing the sick?  They  replied “Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.”  These prophets were considered dead, and this reply may indicate that some of the people believed that Jesus was a medium, controlled by the spirit of John or of Elias.

“This ghostly fancy was repeated by Herod himself.  That a wicked king and debauched husband should have no high appreciation of divine Science and the great work of the Master, was not surprising; for how could such a sinner comprehend what the disciples did not fully understand?  But even Herod doubted if Jesus was controlled by the sainted preacher.  Hence Herod’s assertion “John have I beheaded: but who is this?”  No wonder Herod desired to see the new Teacher.”

·        Luke 9:29 The same three students who accompanied him at Jairus’ home are now praying with Jesus up on a mountain top when a wondrous sight occurs: “And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.”
 

S&H 267: 26 “The robes of Spirit are “white and glistering,” like the raiment of Christ.  Even in this world, therefore, “Let thy garments be always white.”
 

·        Luke 10:17 Seventy new disciples were out on the road and came back with news of their work.  “And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.”  

S&H 49: 1 “The women at the cross could have answered Pilate’s question [“What is Truth”].  They knew what had inspired their devotion, winged their faith, opened the eyes of their understanding, healed the sick, cast out evil, and caused the disciples to say to their Master: “Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.””

 

·        Luke 10: 19 The great Teacher’s counsel to the seventy is: “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

 

S&H 437: 32 [The seasoned reader of Science and Health will recognize the following passage from the “trial” case in the Chapter “Christian Science Practice”. It begins on page 430 and is fascinating reading.]  The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the Rights of Man, remarking that the Bible was better authority than Blackstone: --

 

               “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion.”

“Behold, I give unto you power...over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”"

 

·     Luke 10: 21 Jesus is then recorded by Luke as saying something extraordinary: “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast his these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father for so it seemed good in thy sight.”

 

S&H 131: 13 “Must Christian Science come through the Christian churches as some persons insist?   This Science has come already, after the manner of God’s appointing, but the churches seem not ready to receive it, according to the Scriptural saying, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”  Jesus once said: “I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight.””  

 

Words you may like to know more about:

 

Debauched

Seduced from morality, allegiance, or duty, in order to be corrupt, immoral, and self-indulgent; a state of revelling in the loss of innocence. www.urbandictionary.com

 

Babes (Greek: napeos)

untaught, unskilled

more to come...