Hope Of Healing - OT/NT Series 6

Tune: Winchester New

('On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry')

Matthew 8 v.14-17

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Then when Jesus was come into

Peter's house, then came into view

His wife's mother, sick with fever

Jesus, His compassion did stir

And He touched her hand, and fever

It departed, it did leave her

And she arose and served them there

Rejoiced, her healing she did share

When the evening was come they brought

Many to Jesus, Him they sought

Those infirm, demon-afflicted {1}

Cast out by the word He there said

And healed all that were sick, that it

Might be fulfilled in every whit

What was by Isaiah spoken

The people they witnessed it them

For Isaiah said, Christ Himself {2}

Took our infirmities, and health

Restored to us, for He so bore

Our sicknesses, here mercy sure

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{1} I've toned down the words a bit - actual words in some versions say 'possessed with devils'.

{2} Isaiah 53 v.4