In the Gospel today, Peter's mother-in-law is sick with a fever. Christ cures her. So He does throughout His public life.
Thomas Jefferson reconstructed a bible without Christ's miracles and wrote of the result: "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
The purpose of miracles can be debated, especially with Jefferson's acclamation of the Christian philosophy as profound without them. Christ's healings, though, point to a serious problem among men: Inequality. Despite the rantings of politicians, the greatest inequality of man is that of health. Christ is gently intervening there, as He does later with the great equalizer, Death.
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