A Maschil Avowing Public Supplications for the Chronically Sick & Afflicted Believers

Jesus' compassion for the sick and hurting is legendary. Among those whom Jesus healed are some identified with chronic suffering: there was a man who was blind from birth, a woman who was afflicted with ongoing bleeding for 12 years both weakening her body and causing religious uncleanness, another woman suffer for 18 years bent over with a crippling condition, and a man with paralysis 38 years was routinely laid by the Pool of Bethesda because according to a contemporary superstition when an angel stirred the water whoever was the first in the pool would be healed- but with a seeming cruel irony this man was paralyzed...