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 Thanks for the reply. The references are all there - if you check ref 24, it's a compression of those references.  

Ok, let's remove the 'healer' clause from the first sentence. (It's repeated in the second one anyway).  

And what is your opinion about the ""(or 'rabbi')"" parenthesis after ""teacher""?  The reason I added this was because I found a qualifying footnote, which I thought would be useful for the lead (but only if people read footnotes when they're in leads). I'll quote it below:  

(or 'rabbi' [ref]Bernard J. Lee, (Paulist Press, 1988)), page 119-120: ""However, both Jewish and Christian scholars have advised us not to import a later meaning of rabbi into Jesus' time. Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner says that in Jesus' milieu rabbi was not a fixed title and was used in current speech as a unofficial indication of honor. Thus it may or may not have specifically named a teacher of honor. Martin Hengel takes this position too, and adds that probably by the time John's Gospel is written, rabbi is a more official designation of a teacher (and soon it designates an ordained teacher).[ref])   "