θεραπεύω

Matthew 4:23 θεραπεύων healing

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

Here: Curing the sick. Like the teaching and proclaiming, it was an ongoing, regular part of the ministry.

Matthew 4:24 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them.

Here: 'He healed'. The verb first meant to attend or care for someone, but in the Gospels it means actual cure. The single past tense presents the healing as a completed fact.

Matthew 8:7 θεραπεύσω will heal

“I will go and heal him,” Jesus replied.

Here: Future tense, "I will heal" (or, as a question, "am I to heal?"). In Matthew it is the standard word for Jesus' cures, here a complete restoration of a paralyzed servant in agony (v.6).

Matthew 8:16 ἐθεράπευσεν, He healed,

When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.

Here: 'He healed.' In the Gospels this is the standard word for curing. It ends the sentence; verse 17 then explains it through Isaiah 53:4.

Matthew 9:35 θεραπεύων healing

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness.

Here: Healing the sick. The word's older sense of attending to someone gives it a note of personal care. The healings act out the kingdom being announced.

Matthew 10:1 θεραπεύειν to heal

And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.

Here: The word first meant to serve or care for someone. In the Gospels it nearly always means to cure. The present tense again suggests continuing activity: they are to go on healing.

Matthew 10:8 θεραπεύετε, do heal,

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

Here: "Keep healing." This is a present imperative, a command for something to go on as they travel ("as you go," v. 7). The word once meant "serve" or "attend to," but in the Gospels it means to actually cure. It repeats the authority Jesus gave in 10:1.

Matthew 12:10 θεραπεῦσαι; to heal?

and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

Here: Originally 'to serve, attend to', and from there 'to give medical care, to heal'. The question puts Jesus' healing in the category of treatment, which was exactly what Sabbath rules discussed.

Matthew 12:15 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,

Here: "He healed", in the sense of actually curing illness. The healing on the Sabbath had just triggered the death plot, yet he keeps on healing, only now away from his opponents.

Matthew 12:22 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed the man so that he could speak and see.

Here: "He healed" (aorist tense, a single completed act). Matthew does not say "he cast out the demon" here. One word covers both freeing the man from the demon and restoring his body. The Pharisees in v. 24 are the ones who call it an exorcism.

Matthew 14:14 ἐθεράπευσεν healed

When He stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Here: 'He healed.' The verb first meant to attend to or serve someone. In the Gospels it means actually curing illness, and here it is a sign of God's kingdom breaking in.

Matthew 15:30 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

Large crowds came to Him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and laid them at His feet, and He healed them.

Here: 'He healed.' Matthew uses the aorist tense, which here sums up the event as a whole. All the people who were brought were cured. Matthew does not mention any test of faith, any touch or any word.

Matthew 17:16 θεραπεῦσαι.¶ to heal.

I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

Matthew 17:18 ἐθεραπεύθη was healed

Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

Matthew 19:2 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

Matthew 21:14 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.

Here: 'He healed.' The tense presents the healing as a completed event, a summary of what happened to all who came. In the Gospels this verb means real physical cure.

Mark 1:34 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases and drove out many demons. But He would not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

Here: "He healed." The verb first meant attending to or caring for someone, but in the Gospels it is the ordinary word for restoring the sick to health. The simple past tense sums up the evening's healings as one completed fact.

Mark 3:2 θεραπεύσει He will heal

In order to accuse Jesus, they were watching to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

Here: 'Will he heal?' The future tense keeps the watchers' own question. They do not doubt that he can heal. They expect it. The open question is whether he will do it on the Sabbath.

Mark 3:10 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.

Here: Aorist (simple past) summing up his healing work so far. In the background, English rightly says 'had healed'. The verb began with the sense 'to serve or attend to' and by this period meant to cure.

Mark 6:5 ἐθεράπευσεν. He healed.

So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.

Mark 6:13 ἐθεράπευον.¶ were healing [them].

They also drove out many demons and healed many of the sick, anointing them with oil.

Luke 4:23 θεράπευσον do heal

Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

Luke 4:40 ἐθεράπευεν He was healing

At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.

Here: "He was healing" or "he kept on healing". The ongoing past tense pictures a long evening of cures, one after another, and the cures actually worked.

Luke 5:15 θεραπεύεσθαι to be healed

But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

Luke 6:7 θεραπεύει He heals

Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

Luke 6:18 ἐθεραπεύοντο. were healed.

They had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases, and those troubled by unclean spirits were healed.

Luke 7:21 ἐθεράπευσεν He healed

At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.

Here: He healed. The simple past tense sums up many separate healings as one report, and this single verb governs all three troubles that follow.

Luke 8:2 τεθεραπευμέναι cured

as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

Here: "Having been healed". The Greek perfect tense points to a past healing whose result lasts: these are women who remain whole. The healing was done to them (passive), by Jesus as the context implies.

Luke 8:43 θεραπευθῆναι, to be healed,

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

Here: "To be cured". The verb first meant to serve or attend to someone, then to give medical care, then to heal. The doctors could treat her but none could cure her. In the next verse a touch does what they could not.

Luke 9:1 θεραπεύειν to heal

Then Jesus called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and power to cure diseases.

Here: A present infinitive, 'to heal', describing ongoing healing activity. In the Gospels the word means effective healing, not just treating someone. It explains what the grant is for where diseases are concerned.

Luke 9:6 θεραπεύοντες healing

So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.

Luke 10:9 θεραπεύετε do heal

Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’

Here: A present-tense command: keep healing, make it your ongoing practice in each town. The word started out meaning attentive care or service. In the Gospels it means actually restoring people to health.

Luke 13:14 ἐθεράπευσεν θεραπεύεσθε healed, do be healed

But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

Here: Aorist: a single completed act. The leader counts what Jesus did, a word and a touch (vv. 12–13), as 'healing', and for him healing falls under work.

Luke 14:3 θεραπεῦσαι to heal

So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

John 5:10 τεθεραπευμένῳ· healed;

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”

Here: A perfect-tense participle: 'the one who has been healed and now stands healed.' The narrator names him by the miracle, though the miracle is exactly what the objectors pass over.

Acts 4:14 τεθεραπευμένον, healed,

And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.

Acts 5:16 ἐθεραπεύοντο were healed

Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

Acts 8:7 ἐθεραπεύθησαν· were healed;

With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.

Here: An aorist passive, presenting each healing as a completed event. The passive does not name the healer. In Acts that is consistently God acting through Jesus' name, not Philip's own power (compare 3:12–16).

Acts 17:25 θεραπεύεται is He served

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Here: Here it means the hands-on care of a deity: tending its statue and shrine, bringing it food and offerings, the way an attendant looks after a master. It is a present passive: 'he is not being looked after'. This is the only place in the New Testament where the word carries this sense. Everywhere else it means 'heal'.

Acts 28:9 ἐθεραπεύοντο· were healed;

After this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.

Revelation 13:3 ἐθεραπεύθη, was healed,

One of the heads of the beast appeared to have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.

Here: "Was healed". It is the ordinary Gospel word for Jesus' healings, used here of the beast's recovery. The passive leaves the healer unnamed.

Revelation 13:12 ἐθεραπεύθη was healed

And this beast exercised all the authority of the first beast and caused the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.