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demoniacs, 3 raised from the dead.” Also, he notes occasions of healing: Matthew 4:23, 24; 15:30-31; 19:1-2; Mark 1: 32-34; 6:53-56; Luke 4:40; 6:17- 19; John 2:23; 21-25. Halley’s Bible Handbook, pp. 470-471. Note that the miracle of Rachel being brought to Jesus by her friends is basically the same kind of story as we find in Luke 5:16-25 where a paralytic (i.e., paraplegic: paralysis of the lower trunk and legs) cannot get to Jesus because of the crowd. His friends lifted him to the roof and then lowered him through the hole they dug in the ceiling, placing him right in front of Jesus. “A large Jewish population lived in Damascus, and many of Jesus’ followers sought refuge there during the persecution in Jerusalem following the murder and martyrdom of Stephen … At the height of the first Jewish rebellion against Rome in A. D. 66-70, Damascus was the site of a tragic persecution in which as many as 10,500 Jews may have been killed.” Reader’s Digest Jesus and His Times, p. 307. Pp.10-11 Damascus. Pp. 14-15 Lifting hands. 1 Timothy 2:8: “Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without doubting.” Psalm 28:2: “Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.” Endnotes for Chapter 6, A Blinding Light P. 3 Transfiguration: When Jesus went with three of his disciples up on the mountain to pray (most Bible interpreters feel it was Mount Hermon), Jesus’ appearance was drastically enhanced with the presence of God’s light: He was “transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the Light,” Matthew 17:2. Although Jesus refused Peter’s offer to build three tabernacles (one for Jesus, and one each for Moses and Elijah who also appeared), there presently are three churches there (of different denominations), each church on one of the three major high places. P.13 Fervent, audible, combined prayer was common in the Early Church, and is still common in some Spirit-filled churches. See Acts 4:23-31. P. 14 Prophetic activity was common practice in New Testament Churches, as taught by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14: also, see Acts 2; 11:28; 13:1; 21:7-14.