It's About the Healer, Not the Healed

The miracle in Gethsemane, where Jesus healed the ear severed when Peter attacked the guard with his sword, captures a number of themes we've seen throughout our study of Jesus' miracles. First, the healing was a manifestation of God's kingdom. At that "hour when darkness reigned," it was a powerful juxtaposition of the world's ways—violence, coercion, …