The Gift of Healing

1. Restore health to the sick; raise the dead; heal lepers and cast out demons.

Give freely what you have received freely. (Mt. 10:8)

2. “Give freely what you have received freely,” Jesus said to his disciples. By this precept he prescribes that one should not charge for something that one has not paid for. What the disciples had received freely was the faculty of healing the sick and casting out demons, that is, evil spirits. This gift was given to them freely by God for the relief of those who were suffering and for the spreading of the faith; he told them not to make a business of it, an object of speculation, or a way to make a living.