signs of the rebirth of life, and herald the new creation of all things. For in faith, God’s Spirit is experienced as the spirit and the power of Christ’s resurrection. Healings of the sick are foretokens of the resurrection world which drives out death. Miraculous, inexplicable healings were common enough in the ancient world. We find them in the world of today, too. In Jesus’s case they belong within the context of his proclamation of the kingdom of God, and talk a language of their own: when God