Mashal, the deformed man
Crippled healed by Jesus. Jesus places His hands on the deformed shoulders of the man who barely reaches His waist, looks up to Heaven and says in a thunderous voice:
"«Rise and walk in the ways of the Lord» and the man gives a start and then springs up as straight as the most perfect man. His movement is so rapid that one would think that the springs, holding him in that abnormal position, had suddenly broken. He now reaches up to Jesus’ shoulders, he looks at Him, then falls on his knees, with his mother, kissing the feet of his Saviour."[1]
Character and Appearance
"The freak of nature, he really is, is now before Jesus. It is not possible to see his face as he is so bent and twisted. He looks like the caricature of a man-chimpanzee, or of a humanised camel."[2]