Pregledni rad
Care for patients – Christ’s mission
Domagoj Runje
orcid.org/0000-0002-6244-362X
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Sažetak
One cannot determine statistically how many patients
Jesus cured. Out of numerous miracles canonical gospels single
out about twenty occasions in which Jesus directly meets with
one or more sick people, or with those who pray for the curing
of others, members of their family or friends. In this article
four texts are being analyzed, one from each canonical gospels,
which illustrate Jesus’ attitude toward health and illness and
toward the sick and those who take care of them, including: the
detail from Jesus’ parable of the Last Judgment (Mt 25, 31-46),
in which the criterion of the judgment is, among other things,
the attitude towards patients; the periscope about curing Peter’s
mother-in-law that continues into the curing of many other sick
people (Mk 1, 29-38) and finally finishes with Jesus’ escape from
Capernaum; the occasion of curing ten lepers who ask Jesus to
take pity on them (Lk 17, 11-19); the cure of the paralyzed at the
Sheep Pool (Jn 5, 1-18). The analysis of the selected texts finishes
with a commentary of Jesus’ sentence “Whoever believes in me
will perform the same works as I do myself, he will perform even
greater works, because I am going to the Father.” (Jn 14, 12).
The answer to the question: what are those greater works that
Jesus’ disciples are going to perform like, can be found in the
meaning of Jesus’ “hour” (Jn 13, 1), which had not come during
any of his miracles, as he explicitly said at the wedding at Cana
(Jn 2, 4), but at the hour of his complete commitment to death on
the cross. Thus, in their attitude toward the sick, the greatness
of the actions of Jesus’ disciples is not realized in carrying out
miraculous and supernatural curing, but through dedicated
serving which is an authentic act of love for our neighbour.
Ključne riječi
Jesus’ miracles; curing of the sick; mission of curing; Jesus’ “hour”
Hrčak ID:
112230
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2013.
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