Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and indexes.

Methodology -- The living temple: Matthew 8:1-4 -- From East and West: Matthew 8:5-13 -- The uninvited healer: Matthew 8:14-15 -- Houses, healing, and prophets: Matthew 8:16-17 -- The other side: Matthew 8:18-27 -- On the way, before the time: Matthew 8:28-34 -- Practicing healing in community: Matthew 9:1-8 -- Unexpected guests: Matthew 9:9-13 -- Things old and new: Matthew 9:14-17 -- Daughters in the borderland: Matthew 9:18-26 -- Sensing the Son of David: Matthew 9:27-31 -- Healing every disease: Matthew 9:32-38.

Walter Wilson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the healing narratives in the Gospel of Matthew, combining the familiar methods of form, redaction, and narrative criticisms with insights culled from medical anthropology, feminist theory, disability studies, and ancient archaeology to understand the New Testament's longest and most systematic account of healing, Matthew chapters 8 and 9. Close exegetical readings culminate in a final synthesis of Matthew's understanding of healing, how Matthew's narratives of healing expose the distinctive priorities of the evangelist, and how these priorities relate to the theology of the Gospel.