Did Jesus ever get sick or suffer from disease? A few weeks ago I answered this in the negative and supported it with biblical evidence and historical quotations from Charles Spurgeon, Thomas Goodwin, and George Smeaton. Last weekend, when studying John Owen’s teaching about Jesus’s relation to the Holy Spirit, I discovered that he had also expressed himself similarly:

Although he took on him those infirmities which belong unto our human nature as such, and are inseparable from it until it be glorified, yet he took none of our particular infirmities which cleave unto our persons, occasioned either by the vice of our constitutions or irregularity in the use of our bodies. Those natural passions of our minds which are capable of being the moans of affliction and trouble, as grief, sorrow, and the like, he took upon him; as also those infirmities of nature which are troublesome to the body, as hunger, thirst, weariness, and pain,—yea, the purity of his holy constitution made him more highly sensible of these things than any of the children of men;—but as to our bodily diseases and distempers, which personally adhere unto us, upon the disorder and vice of our constitutions, he was absolutely free from them.

Previous Posts in this Series on the Atonement

Was Jesus ever ill?

The Most Sympathetic Man in the World

What did Christ believe about the atonement?

The Four Essentials of a Successful Atonement

Three Old and New Errors about the Atonement