The woman with the water-head baby, the twisted, the blind, the lame, the halt, and He went right through every one of them and never said one thing to any of them, went over there to a man laying on a pallet that had prostate trouble, or something like that, or…?…He’d had it thirty-eight years; it wasn’t going to kill him. And He said, “Will thou be made whole?” Now, watch, the Scriptures said, “Jesus knew that he had been here.” See, it was a vision. And He made him whole, walked on away, and left that multitude of crippled people. Is that right? How many says that’s the Scripture, say, “Amen.” That’s the Scripture, exactly. Well now, don’t you know the critics that day, said, “Why didn’t He heal this one? Why don’t He heal that one? Why don’t He heal that one?” the same thing we get right back every day…“Heal this and I’ll believe it.” No, you wouldn’t. You’d believe without seeing it if you was a believer. Whether they’re healed or not, doesn’t make any… If I prayed for a thousand people tonight, and the whole thousand died tomorrow morning, tomorrow night I’d be preaching Divine healing. Because God’s Word said so. It ain’t based on whether this or that; God said so. See? That settles it.

Do You Now Believe?, 1953-12-06, West Palm Beach, FL, §68