Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?

And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Luke the physician, our dear friend, greets you, [as does] Demas.

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely} ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but [only] among the healers.

And [when he] heard [it], he said, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those {who are sick}.

And he said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable: 'Physician, heal yourself!' Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!"

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those {who are sick}.


Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Go up [to] Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain} you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.


There is no [one who] pleads your cause, for [your] boil there is no healing for you.

And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides} every tree {producing food}; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease [producing] its fruit. {Every month} it will bear early fruit, for its waters [are] going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing."