Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

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

Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

And Jesus answered and said to them, It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.


Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.


‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.

By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”


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