Healing
We are healed through his wounds. ~ Isaiah 53:5 (ABP)
Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all of God’s scattered people. ~ John 11:52 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Through the suffering of Jesus, we all have access to healing.
PRAYER
Thank you for your faithfulness in the most difficult places. Suffering feels like a lonely place. Give me words of comfort and healing to be an ambassador of hope. When there are no words, help me to listen and sit quietly with you and your human family, waiting for the light of Easter to shine again. Amen. (Daily Texts, Mount Carmel Ministries edition)
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
