This scene of the healing Christ in His disciples' household suggests the whole subject of the effect on domestic life of Christianity, or more truly of Christ Himself. It is scarcely too much to say that the home, as many of us blessedly know, is the creation of Christ. Cana of Galilee—The household at Bethany.
II. The time.
After His long day's toil—the unwearied mercy. On the Sabbath—the Lord of the Sabbath.
III. The person.
The woman. How Christianity embodies the true emancipation of women. They are participants in an equal gift, honoured by admission to equal service.
IV. The effect.
'She ministered'; testimony of the completeness of the cure. Which completeness is also real in the spiritual region.
How the basis of all our service must be His healing. Ours second, not first.
How the end of His healing is our service. We are bound to render it: He desires it. How each one's character and circumstances determine his service. How common duties may be sanctified. He accepts our service whatever it be.
The Sabbath. The services of love come before ritual observance, in
Jesus and in the cured woman.