摘要：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.
关键词：Jesus’ miracles; curing of the sick; mission of curing; Jesus’ “hour”;
