I Appeal To Caesar!

Sick, and they also remained practicing Jews in the synagogues and Temple.

Now, in the early morning pre-dawn, sick Jewish people who have heard there is a cure for their maladies are moving toward their great Jewish sanctuary of hope; they have heard that followers of Jesus will pray for those in need and great results will undoubtedly take place! (The common people are not aware that the Temple leaders are set against such happenings, for they do not believe in miraculous happenings.) So, . . . now they come in the pre-dawn, people beyond human recovery with every imaginable malady, many assisted or carried by relatives and friends. Some hobble on home-made crutches, parents carry sick children, cripples ride the backs of younger, stronger people, others are borne on stretchers . . . and some are led by the hand, for they are blind; some are deaf, and friends walk with them to safeguard their arrival. Some of the crowd are very familiar, for they are the handicapped beggars known to all—but they have the same hope as everyone else! Jesus healed all types of infirmity . . . His followers have done likewise . . . so “why not believe,” the anxious people ask, “that I too can be healed?” * * * * * Elias, a young man in his twenties, hears from excited friends that miracles often happen when prayer is offered in Jesus’ name. Early this very morning, he had said to himself: “This could not happen to me—too good to be true!”