Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.
What is the Gospel?
The Hebrew word for Gospel is Basar which literally translated means meat. And just as meat gives life to us physically the Basar gives life to us spiritually. Jesus preached the “gospel of the kingdom” and in many of His parables He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to something - a sower of seed, tares in a field, a mustard seed, a woman with three loaves of bread, treasure hidden in a field, a merchant seeking fine pearls and a dragnet cast into the sea (Matthew 13).
According to Hebrew thought the Kingdom of Heaven is the Garden of Eden and the Basar is the restoration of both Mankind and the earth back to the way it was in the Garden of Eden. A time and a place where there will be no sickness, no sorrow, no pain, no death, no oppression, no sin and most importantly when our relationship with the Father will once again be restored.
The Basar…
Isaiah 61:1-3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to grant those who mourn in Zion, giving them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Jesus (the Messiah, the Sent One, the Anointed One) would be the agent through whom this restoration would take place. Through His sacrifice we may be saved, by His death our relationship with the Father may be restored.
Isaiah 53:4-6, 10-12
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
But the LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the booty with the strong; because He poured out Himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors.
So…
Has Jesus proclaimed the Basar to you?
