Luke 4: 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them. 41 And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
Mark 1: 40 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” 41 Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”
We can see that the ministries of healing and deliverance were interwoven.
They came to Jesus because they were sick, but in many cases their cure demanded the expelling of evil spirits.
And notice that Jesus laid His hands on every one of them.
There used to be a Pentecostal tradition that it’s unscriptural to lay your hands on somebody who has an evil spirit. If that is so, then Jesus was unscriptural. And I’d rather follow His pattern than a tradition.
Luke 13: 11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. 12 But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” 13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16 So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”
What was the cause of this woman being bent over? It was a spirit. It was caused by a spirit of infirmity, an evil spirit that had doubled her body over so that she couldn’t straighten herself up.
When Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.
He said that in faith. And He laid His hands on her. And immediately she was made straight and glorified God.
She was a believing woman. She was a Jew; she was a member of the synagogue. She had this terrible physical problem; her back was bent over. And it was caused by a spirit of infirmity.
And the moment the spirit of infirmity left her, she straightened up. Some problems that we would classify as physical are actually caused by evil spirits.
Jesus also dealt with dumbness, deafness, and blindness as being caused by evil spirits, and in many cases His ministry to heal the people was to deliver them from the spirits that caused their dumbness, their deafness, and their blindness.
Luke 13: 31 On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, “Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.”32 And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’
So, Jesus is casting out demons and performing cures. That’s how He started His ministry, that’s how He continued it, and that’s how He ended it.
His whole ministry, from beginning to end, included in it as a major part, probably one-third of his time, in healing the sick and casting out demons, and the two were so intertwined that it was really impossible to distinguish between them.