ACC ~ Luke 6 v17 - 19

JESUS HEALS TO SHOW HE IS THE CHRIST

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: When he had appointed the holy apostles, he performed very many wonderful miracles, rebuking demons, delivering from incurable diseases whoever drew near to him, and displaying his own most divine power. He did these works so that both the Jews, who had run together to him, and those from the country of the Greeks might know that Christ was not some ordinary man of those in our degree but, on the contrary, God. He honored these chosen disciples with the dignity of the apostolate. He was the Word that was made man but retained nevertheless his own glory. “For power went forth from him and healed all.” Christ did not borrow strength from some other person, but being himself God by nature, even though he had become flesh, he healed them all, by the demonstration of power over the sick. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 25. [1]

[1] CGSL 127**.

JESUS DESCENDED TO HEAL THE LOWLY

AMBROSE: Note all things carefully. He ascends with the apostles and descends to the crowds. How would a crowd see Christ, except at a low level? It does not follow him to the heights; it does not climb to majestic places. So when he descends, he finds the weak, for the weak cannot be high up. Thus also Matthew teaches that the weak were healed down below. [1] First each was healed, so that little by little, with increasing virtue, he could ascend to the mountain. On the plain he heals each, that is, he calls them back from recklessness. He turns away the harm of blindness. He descends to heal our wounds, so that in an effective and abundant manner he makes us partakers in his heavenly nature. EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 5.46. [2]

[1] Mt 8:1-4.

[2] EHG 164**.