Masters of the Life of Christ

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Christ Healing the Sick, drawing, reproduced as an illustration by Heinrich Hofmann, by 1893

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At evening in Capernaum, Mark says, “all the city was gathered together at the door.” Hofmann shows Jesus bending to take a kneeling woman’s hand while others press in behind: a man on a crutch, an old man on his knees.

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