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I was doing some reading recently and stumbled onto something that has really been bothering me. I wanted to see what you all make of it.
If you read Matthew 17 in a King James Bible, there is a verse (verse 21) where the disciples ask Jesus why they couldn't heal a sick boy. Jesus tells them: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." But if you look at almost any modern Bible—like the NIV or the ESV—the text literally skips from verse 20 straight to verse 22. There is just a blank space, with a tiny footnote at the bottom claiming it "wasn't in the original manuscripts."
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but I find it incredibly strange that a passage where Jesus gives a direct instruction on how to heal ourselves of heavy physical and spiritual afflictions was just quietly removed. They claim they are just correcting an old clerical error, but it makes you wonder who benefits from taking those words out of the text.
What makes this really suspicious to me is looking at what modern medicine is discovering right now. Scientists are actually winning Nobel Prizes for researching "autophagy"—which is basically the process where your body goes into a cellular self-healing mode and cleans out diseased cells, and it only happens specifically when you fast.
So thousands of years ago, Christ was telling people to practise fasting as a key to driving out heavy illness. And today, science is finally catching up and realising that fasting literally forces the body to repair its own immune system.
It makes me wonder if there is a bigger reason that specific verse was targeted for removal. Why take out the one verse that gives people a free, natural way to heal themselves that doesn't rely on a system?
