Healing

"He is never less concerned about physical than about spiritual need(Mark 6:34ff.) Salvation is strikingly linked with physical healing in Acts 4:9: Peter pronounces the cripple "saved" ("cured," NEB), and goes on to speak of the only name in whom and through whom is salvation (v. 12). So physical healing is an essential part of the salvation brought by Jesus; "spiritualizing" the gospel makes it something foreign - in fact, no gospel at all." Adrio Konig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology, p. 226