When John the Baptist was in doubt as to whether or not Christ Jesus was the promised Messiah, he sent two of his disciples to inquire of him. Jesus implied that he was, and to substantiate this he told of the miracles he had performed. Through his spiritual understanding the blind had received their sight, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, the dead were raised up, and the poor in spirit—the humble of heart—had the gospel preached to them (Matthew 11:5). The works he had accomplished were to convince the Baptist of the greatest event in human history, the coming of the Messiah.
A great deal of mysticism has attached itself to the life of Jesus and the healing wonders which he wrought. Many have tried to explain his works by assuming that God specially endowed him with spiritual power to do what he did. They have rightly regarded him as one whose life was blameless—pure, righteous, morally courageous, loving, greatly compassionate—who loved God with his whole heart and his neighbor as himself. And looking upon him in this way they have reasoned that God had singled him out as a person and bestowed on him, as such, a measure of spiritual power far greater than He had bestowed on any other.
That way of thinking of Jesus, which is still prevalent, rightly acknowledges the Master's unsurpassed goodness and power, but it fails to give the explanation of his spiritual endowment. And this, because it is not based on the correct understanding of God and man. Those who hold it think of God after the pattern of a human being, and as acting after the manner of a human being; whereas, as Christian Science shows, God is unchangeable Principle, infinite Mind or Spirit.
