Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country.

And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.


Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.


There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain