John 7:23 NASB95
If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
Jesus is here referring to the man He healed at the pool of Bethesda in John 5. The man had been infirmed for 38 years, and in John 5:6, Jesus asked him if he wished to be well. The word “well” actually would be better translated as “sound” or “whole.” As you read the rest of the chapter, you discover that somehow, the man’s condition went beyond just the infirmity in his body because Jesus told him, “Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may befall you.” Referring back to that incident, Jesus said in John 7 that He made the ENTIRE or WHOLE man whole. This is what Jesus is after. He came to include us in His life so that we might experience wholeness. Healing isn’t just about our bodies being made whole, though Jesus does do that; but Christ came to make broken humanity whole from the inside out. Jesus gets so excited about healing the entire person. I can’t find one place in Scripture where Jesus healed someone’s body but left them broken on the inside. Paul described his own ministry as “Proclaiming Him, admonishing every person and teaching every person in all wisdom, that we may present every person COMPLETE in Christ.” Colossians 1:28. I don’t always see every person made “entirely” whole, but I’ll never stop, in Jesus’s name, going after that because that’s His vision, and I can’t afford to have any other vision than His because He and I are one.