Jesus has a ministry of healing alongside proclaiming the Kingdom of God. He does many healing miracles for New Testament women. The apostles continue Jesus’s work of healing miracles.

In my last post, I talked about how the New Testament describes healing. In this post, I want to describe a few accounts of God’s healing miracles for women in the New Testament.

The only healing miracles I pointed out from the Old Testament for women were God’s healing barren wombs. Jesus does drastically more miracles of healing in the New Testament. His healing miracles for New Testament women are numerous and happen often.

As God’s Kingdom is breaking out through Jesus’s ministry in the Gospels, a noticeable amount of women receive their healing. I don’t have the room to talk about all of them in one post, but we are going to look at many of the women who were healed by Jesus and the apostles in Acts.

Unfortunately, the culture around first century Palestine, and in much of the Old Testament culture, did not value women as much as God does. Jesus cares very much about every person, including women, and He shows it through His many interactions with women throughout the Gospels. They will receive much from Him, and He holds nothing back from women who need His healing touch. The same is true today.

A Barren New Testament Woman Has a Special Child

I told you when we talked about barrenness in the Old Testament that usually the healing of a barren womb brought forth a special child. It starts with Sarah having the miracle son Isaac, most of the patriarchal wives experiencing God’s healing, and a number of special children in the historical books.

In the New Testament, only one woman is recorded as experiencing God’s healing miracle in the womb (Luke 5-25, 57-66). She starts out the story of Jesus as her and Zechariah experience God’s healing power. This New Testament woman is Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist.

It tracks with the Old Testament. John the Baptist is the forerunner of Jesus, and one of the most important prophets to usher in the era of God’s Kingdom. Like Sarah, Elizabeth is older in age when she becomes pregnant with John. It just proves the continuity between the Old and New Testament. God is still healing today!

If you want to have a baby and doctors tell you it won’t happen, trust the word of the Lord above all else. He can do incredible things for you. He did it in the past and He’s not done yet.

The Syro-Phoenician New Testament Woman

There is a curious account in the Gospels of a Gentile woman known as the Syro-Phoenician woman (Mark 7:24-30). This is an account of a New Testament woman who experienced Jesus’s healing power, but also His saving power.

She has a daughter at home who has a demon. Before you say I am including everything in healing,, you will see Jesus deliver people from demons and the Gospel writers use words for “healing.” He came to do, and continues to do, a holistic work of salvation, healing, and deliverance.

This account does not stretch what healing meant to this New Testament Gentile woman. She has the faith to almost beg Jesus to touch her daughter, and because of our faith, He does. We don’t have to be particular because Jesus can do it all.

Jesus Heals Two New Testament Women

We will revisit this account of a young girl healed and a woman with an issue of blood healed later in this series. But I wanted to show with one connected account Jesus’s power. These two New Testament women experienced Jesus’s healing power.

At first, it is a “normal” story of Jesus agreeing to heal a very sick girl at her father’s bequest. It gets stranger as they are in route to the father’s house. Jesus is stopped by a woman with an issue of blood. She has the faith to touch Jesus’s outer garment. Her faith makes her well.

I can imagine what that father was thinking. Jesus stops at a crucial moment when his daughter could die at any moment. In fact, people from his house tell him to quit bothering Jesus because she has passed away. No problem. Jesus raises her from the dead! No sickness is too far gone for Jesus to heal.

New Testament Women Raised to Life

We have seen God raise people from the bad in the Old Testament. It’s interesting that in the New Testament, there are specific accounts of women being raised from the dead. I already mentioned the 12-year-old girl who is raised to life, and I said we will be looking closely at her story a bit later.

In Acts, a woman named Tabitha is raised to life after an illness (Acts 9:36-42). She is a believer, and many of the believers around her realize in real life what Jesus can do with people who pass away. It shows His great power and mercy.

We’re just scratching the surface of what we will see Jesus do for women in the Gospels and continue through the apostles in Acts. There are many more accounts to come. I hope this increases your faith for your own need for healing from Jesus today.

Praying for Your Healing

I hope these accounts of healing for women have increased your faith to see Jesus do extraordinary things in you today.

Great physician Jesus, I come before you for my sister in Christ who needs a healing touch from you today. No matter what she’s going through, Lord, I know You can heal her. Anything that has a name must bow to You. In that same mighty name, I ask You to heal whatever she might be facing from cancer, diabetes, tumors, barrenness, blindness, disability, and a host of others. We have the faith and our trusting in You alone. In Your all-powerful name, we ask, Amen.

Up Next

I have highlighted just a few healing miracles God did for women in the New Testament. Next, I will talk about how Jesus did mass healing of the multitudes of people in His ministry.