Jesus once entered a small village and ten people with leprosy called out to Him, asking that He show them mercy.  Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests and in the course of their travel they realized they had all been healed.  One of the men then turned back and sought out Jesus and began praising God and offering thanks.  Jesus then inquired if there were not ten who had been healed and if so where were the other nine?  Jesus never did a single miracle of healing just to clear out all the sick people.  There were many sick people in the world when Jesus was born and there were many sick people in the world when He died.  Jesus didn't do any miracles to try and get us to pretend that the world we live in isn't real.  Jesus did miracles to demonstrate an even greater reality than the one we see.  Sickness and death are real and their power and effect continue.  But someone greater and more powerful exists.  By healing people who were sick Jesus gave glimpses of this ...