Jesus Heals a Man’s Boyfriend
Bible stories they didn’t tell you in church
If I told you that Jesus once healed a man’s boyfriend, and you can read all about it in the Bible, would that have you scratching your head?
You bet!
You probably weren’t told that story in Sunday School and for good reason. It goes against the prevailing conservative Christian narrative that says there is no way that Jesus would have associated with, let alone affirmed a same-sex couple. Plus, given the prevalence of heteronormative biblical scholarship, it should come as little surprise that Jesus’s potential encounter with a gay man has been written out of the story.
But, believe it or not, when you scratch below the surface, there is a story in the Gospels where Jesus may well have encountered a gay man and, not only that, that man asked Jesus to heal his partner. And guess what? Jesus did! Not only that, Jesus commended the man for his faith.
Don’t believe me?
Fine! I’ll show you the story. Chances are if you grew up in church, you’ve heard it before anyway. However, I very much doubt you’ve heard the plausible interpretation of this story that does, in fact, write a same-sex couple into the Biblical narrative. Strap in! This is the story of when Jesus healed a man’s boyfriend:
