<p>19:12 <i>S</i><i>o that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick</i>- Perhaps during the course of his work as a tentmaker, otherwise the choice of the word 'apron' is hard to understand. The point is perhaps that it was out of spirituality in his daily working life that blessing came to others.</p><p><i>And their diseases left them and their mental illnesses were cured</i>- This reflects the language of the day, presumably shared even by doctor Luke, which held that disease was caused by some internal beings which could enter or leave the human body.</p>