Healing in the Acts of the Apostles

The master thesis "Healing in the Acts" is concerned with the analysis and the exegesis of six pericopes, in which the author describes the healing of particular people. In the first chapter the notion of healing is briefly outlined, at first as a "sign", further as a "proof of the credibility of the apostles and their sermons", and at last in the sense of "the auxiliary tool of the spreading of the gospel". The following fundamental chapter of the thesis is devoted to exegesis of particular pericopes: healing of lame man by Beautiful Gate (Acts 3,1-10), followed by the joint healing of Eneas and Tabitha (Acts 9,32-43). The last three stories are part of exegesis of the healing of disabled man in Lystra (Acts 14,8-12), resurgence of Eutyches in Troas (Acts 20,7-12) and healing of Publius' father on Malta (Acts 28,7- 10). The last chapter is focused on the summary and reflection of the purpose of the individual miraculous acts, as well as their comparison with the similar cases in synoptic gospels (such a comparison is concerned particularly with the main source of the miraculous power, types of diseases and social status of the above mentioned sick people)