Jesus the Healer

Stories of Jesus miraculously healing ill and incapacitated people abound in the gospels. This collection of activities and discussions assist student to understand and appreciate the role of Jesus the healer in his first century CE context. An extensive discussion of background material is provided to assist the teacher when presenting material on the gospel healing miracles. Student activities include several writing task sheets, information sheets on illness and demons in the ancient world, a puzzle to be solved using Braille characters, a retrieval chart to analyse the form of a gospel story and a list of references to locate the healing stories in the four gospels. These activities can be used with students from upper primary to middle secondary year levels.