When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
A single healer once cured an entire town's sick population in one evening with a 100% success rate.
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What current science says
Even in a small ancient town of a few hundred people, the sick would present with dozens of different conditions: infections, injuries, congenital disorders, cancers, parasites, malnutrition, and chronic diseases. Modern emergency rooms — staffed by entire teams of specialists with billions of dollars in equipment — still can't cure everyone who walks in. A 100% cure rate for diverse conditions is medically impossible because some diseases (like certain cancers and genetic disorders) remain incurable even today. No clinical trial in history has ever reported 100% efficacy across multiple conditions.
What the text says
This comes from Luke 4:40. The text says 'all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them' — every single patient, every single disease, one night.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.