Every recorded moment in the four Gospels where Jesus restores a person — body, mind, or soul — organized by category, with scripture references and the number of Gospel accounts for each.
“He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.” — Matthew 8:17, citing Isaiah 53:4
Each card is one encounter. Click a card to open its detail. The number on the right shows how many Gospel accounts record it — a “3” means Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the story. Use the filters to study one category at a time, trace a single Gospel's healing portrait, or find every encounter where a person is named.
For group study: work through one category per session (nine sessions), read the passages aloud from your own Bible, then close with the discussion questions at the end of that category.
Patterns to watch for as you read
“Your faith has healed you” is spoken to Bartimaeus, the bleeding woman, the Samaritan leper, and the sinful woman at Simon's house. Jesus commends the faith of a Roman centurion and a Syrophoenician mother — both Gentiles — above what he found in Israel. Yet faith is not a formula: the man at Bethesda never expresses any, and Lazarus is beyond expressing anything at all. Healing flows from Jesus' compassion and authority, and faith is honored wherever it appears.
Jesus touches a leper, a bleeding woman touches him, he takes a dead girl by the hand — three touches that, under the law's purity rules, should have made him unclean. Instead, cleansing flows the other direction. Watch how often the mechanics of a healing are physical and personal: hands, mud, a word spoken to one person at a time.
At least six healings happen on the Sabbath (the withered hand, the bent woman, the man with dropsy, the Bethesda invalid, the man born blind, the Capernaum synagogue deliverance) — most of them in front of critics, none of them urgent emergencies. Jesus chooses the day. Healing, he argues, is what the Sabbath is for: “Should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham... be set free on the Sabbath day?” (Luke 13:16).
The paralytic's friends come for a healing and hear “your sins are forgiven” first. Zacchaeus has no illness, yet Jesus declares “salvation has come to this house.” The Gospels refuse to split the person: Jesus restores bodies, minds, consciences, and standing in community — often in the same encounter.
Matthew clusters healings to show the Messiah fulfilling Isaiah. Mark moves fast and physical — Aramaic words, sighs, hands. Luke, the physician, preserves the most healings found nowhere else (the widow's son, the ten lepers, the bent woman, the dropsy, Malchus's ear) and keeps noticing women, Samaritans, and the poor. John selects a handful of healings as “signs” that unveil who Jesus is — each one leads into a conversation about life, light, and resurrection.
Scope: this study counts every restoration encounter in the four Gospels — raisings from the dead, healings of illness and infirmity, deliverance from evil spirits, soul-healing encounters where Jesus forgives and restores a person without a physical cure, and the general summary statements where the Gospels report Jesus healing crowds.
“Accounts” counts the Gospel books that narrate the same encounter (parallel passages), judged by standard Gospel-parallel alignments. A few are debated at the margins — for example, whether Matthew's two blind men at Jericho is the same event as Mark's Bartimaeus (treated here as parallel, the majority view), and whether the nobleman's son in John 4 parallels the centurion's servant (treated here as distinct events, also the majority view). Quotations follow the NIV.
Two passages carry manuscript notes, flagged on their cards: Mark 16:9 (the longer ending of Mark) and John 7:53–8:11 (the woman caught in adultery). Both are printed in most Bibles with a footnote that the earliest manuscripts do not include them.
The category totals are one reasonable way to organize the material, not the only way — several encounters overlap categories (a deliverance that restores speech, a healing that begins with forgiveness), and these are noted with tags on each card.