This passage is a sandwiched story. Jesus had just come back from crossing the sea (calming it) to cast out the legion of demons in the caveman.
He returns with His disciples to the other side of the sea and the crowd was still gathered to see Him and hopefully see some miracles.
Jairus asks Jesus to heal his daughter to which he agrees then this happens: And he went with him.
And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
(Mark 5:24-34 ESV)
- We've seen a few things so far in this book, one of which is - to be a disciple of Jesus you have to be with Him, and also do what He does.
- In this story Jesus was completely overwhelmed with the crowd, they all wanted something from Him and He went to Jairus (v.22 - Jesus isn't a the god of coincidence, but the God of Purpose)
- Everybody in the crowd has swarmed Jesus and an unclean woman reaches out in faith to touch His rode.
- For 12 years she had been bleeding. She was unclean, a social outcast, she would ring a bell like a leper so everybody knew she was filth.
- She had seen every doctor possible and spent all her money trying to get healed. Today was her day though. Jesus was here and as she rushed through the crowd touching every person on her way that had cast her away, looked down on her, gossiped abt her and rejected her; she reached out in a final hope and in Faith touched Jesus - knowing she was leaving that crowd a new person. She was going in with filthy rags and being made new. (v.26)
She was at the end of her rope and needed a Jesus-Intervention; and she got it!
- She had probably heard about Jesus healing the man with the withered hand earlier, and unlike everybody else who was there for the freak show out of curiosity touching Jesus everywhere they went, she reached out in faith and expectance!
- As soon as she touched Jesus she was made new, she was healed. Her filthy rags were cleansed.
- Jesus says to His disciples "somebody touched me", to which they said "are you serious? everybody's touched You"- but Jesus knew something else had happened. Somebody had not only been healed, they had been saved. Somebody had been infiltrated by the Holy Spirit.
- The woman speaks out and tells Jesus her whole story and the crowd goes quiet. they're probably embarrassed that their outcast has caused a 'bother' to Jesus. After hearing every detail of her story, and caring about every detail of her story Jesus says “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
(Mark 5:34 ESV)
- she had already been healed by this time but what Jesus meant was continue in your Grace journey, live as if you've been healed!
Moments with Jesus are to be entered in Faith expecting to come out of them changed. We all need Jesus interventions and then to continue as if they've occurred.
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