Mark 5:24-34 Woman with flow of blood January 6, 2018
Just some
thoughts:
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Do you realize
the age of Jesus and the disciples? 30
and just under
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John the
Baptist, age 30 and could be High Priest.
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Age of
children or grandchildren.
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I believe
we have an inheritance prejudice for young people telling us what to do. Example, Job market,
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Who will
take them seriously. Miracles, healing
brought people to Jesus.
This story about
Jesus will affect us more since we are an older group as a hold.
Mark 5:24 So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept
following him and jostling him.
Mark 5:25-26 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve
years. (26) Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not
been helped at all but rather grew worse.
This lady has an
issue of blood of the womb or bowels.
An issue of
blood. A hemorrhage of
the womb or bowels. Colon cancer?
From the constant
blood loss, this woman would have been weak and anemic and probably pale, no
energy and completely worn out.
This is what is
happening to us today, in our lives and our health care. Can we really identify with her today. Maybe not her illness, but we do have our own
trials and illness. What is our faith
like.
What this poor woman
really endured at the hands of the medical men of the time is left to the
imagination. The reality of her story that she had suffered many things by many
doctors and she was no better but rather “grew worse.”
She also
was desperate. Luke adds that
she
was humanly incurable
*Luke 8:43 A woman was there
who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years. Although she had spent all she had on doctors, no one could heal her.
· Sick for 12 years and
went to one doctor after another doctor.
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Took many medicines, different physicians;
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Probably doctors that
was outside of the normal medicine.
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Same thing
today. So many “doctors” say do this and
you will be healed.
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Spent all her
resources, nothing was better, grew worse.
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Money was gone, disease was gaining and was desperate,
· One
chance now with Jesus.
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Woman
with a severe blood
flow was considered unclean.
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Anyone
she touched would become unclean ceremonially for one day.
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She
entered the crowd to touch Jesus.
Being unclean, this means that she would not
have been permitted to enter the temple for Jewish religious ceremonies. According to the Law, anything or anyone she touched became unclean as
well.
*Leviticus 15:25 "When a woman has
a continuous discharge of blood many days …. she's unclean.
*Leviticus 15:27 Whoever touches them
will become unclean. He is to wash his clothes and bathe with water and he will
remain unclean until evening.
Mark 5:27 Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe,
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She
came because she had heard about
Jesus.
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Heard
of His doings, many miracles, as
well as His name.
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She was desperate,
with Jesus was now passing along the streets, it was her chance.
· She came up behind
Jesus to avoid being notice.
· She seen Jesus
heal individuals and was full of confidence that Jesus was able to heal
her.
· With loss of
blood, probably was weak, yet she went into the crowd desiring to get close to
Jesus.
She pushes herself through the crowd and finally came up behind Jesus, and
touched His garment (hem or border) with her hand, so as not to be observed by
anyone.
She showed some faith
to just touch Jesus garment would make her whole again and free from this
disease. As soon as
the woman touches Jesus, her bleeding stops and she knows she’s been healed.
*Matthew 9:20 And suddenly, a
woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the
hem of His garment.
Interesting side, 3 different individuals saw the same
thing, each mention what they saw in different words and where she touch Jesus
garment.
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Matthew said, hem of His
garment, wrote to the Jewish people
and they would understand when he said hem of His garment.
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Luke said, border of
His garment and wrote to the Greek
people and they would understand the border
of His garment
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Mark said His
garment. wrote to the Romans and just saying garment, they
would understand what Mark meant
What makes the hem
or fringe of a garment important.
*Numbers 15:38-39 "Speak to the
children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels
on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a
blue thread in the tassels of the corners.
(39) (Why) And you shall have the tassel, that you may
look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and
that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your
own eyes are inclined,
The hem or fringe of a garment, a tassel or tuft hanging from the edge
of the outer garment. It was made of twisted wool. Jesus wore the clothes with these fringes
at the four corners of the outer garment.
Mark 5:28 because she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get
well."
Said to herself, in low voice, like whisper the words. She probably said
this over and over again as she tried to get through the crowd.
*Matthew
9:21
For she said to herself, "If
only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well."
So she crept up in the crowd and touched the hem or border of his
garment
Her faith motivated her to act.
What do we know about Hems
The Greek word: kraspedon (criss-pen-don). The Hebrew word: shuwl hem, border, fringe, bottom edge of skirt or train.
Hems were the
symbol of authority, rank, in ancient Israel: We typically in Military Service wear our rank on our shoulder or
sleeve, theirs was their hem. This was
their authority or their place in society.
A husband could
divorce his wife by cutting off the hem of her robe. That would strip her of her marital position.
A nobleman
would approve his name on a clay
tablet by pressing the hem on the clay, because it would have a special design for
the family.
Fringes on Jewish garments
*Numbers 15:38 "Tell the Israelis
that they are to make tassels at the edges of their garments throughout their
generations and that they are to put a violet cord on the tassels at the edges
of their garments.
*Deuteronomy 22:12 Sew tassels for yourselves on the four corners
of the garment with which you cover yourself."
She trusted; she touched Him personally.
We each have to reach out by faith and touch Jesus. It is a personal relationship, not a group
thing. Yes, being in a group, can help
each other grow, with fellowship and accountability.
Mark 5:29 Her bleeding
stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.
She felt at once when she touch Jesus robe
that her bleeding stopped. She knew
right then that her body tells her that she has been cured of this
disease. She feels better and different
with the new sense of health.
*Luke 8:44 She came up behind
Jesus and touched the tassel of his garment, and her bleeding stopped at once.
Mark 5:30 Immediately
Jesus became aware that power had gone
out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
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Jesus cured her, not by touch or
word, but by act of His power, by touching Him.
· Jesus asked for a public
confession on who touch Him.
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Her faith was
strong enough to lead to action.
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She
thought, perhaps, that the touch of Christ’s garment would
cure her without Jesus knowing it.
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Jesus became aware that power has gone out of him as soon as the woman had touched his garments, and was a
cured.
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Jesus knew
what was done, that a woman had touched him, and was healed.
· she tried to disappear into the crowd, Jesus
turned and asked, “Who touched My clothes?”
Mark 5:31 His
disciples asked him, "You see the crowd
jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who
touched me?'"
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The
disciples were surprise at what Jesus said, who touched me.
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Disciples
were amazed at how sensitive Jesus was to a touch while the crowd was jostling
Him, pressing him on every side.
*Luke 8:45-46 Jesus asked,
"Who touched me?" While everyone was denying it, Peter and those who
were with him said, "Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing
in on you."
(46)
Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, because I know that power has gone
out of me."
Mark 5:32 But he kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.
Jesus was looking
around to see the woman who had touch Him.
She was trying to hide from Jesus in the crowd.
Luke 8:47 Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down
before Him, she declared to Him in the
presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was
healed immediately.
Jesus is calling for her public testimony which she gave to those around her. Are we
not to confess, publicly, our testimony about Jesus. This public confession was never encourage
in the Churches of God.
*Matthew 10:32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I
will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
*Romans 10:9-10 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be
saved. (10) For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Public confession
is part of what we are to do., have we ever done this in our life? On Facebook, friends, twitter, etc. Tried to hide it.
Mark 5:33 So the woman, knowing what had happened to
her, came forward fearfully, fell down
trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.
· Came out of the
crowd, very scared, felled down trembling in front of Jesus.
· She told Jesus the
whole truth because secrecy was
no longer possible about her
conduct; the doctors, the painful treatment, loss of means, constant loss of health
and the nature of her disease.
Mark 5:34 He told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."
Again, Jesus said
faith, again, for the benefit of the disciples.
*Luke 8:48 And
He said to her, "Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
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Only
time Jesus used the tender word daughter and addressed anyone that way;
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Jesus noted that her faith made the
difference, for it was correctly placed in Him.
*Matthew 9:22 When Jesus turned and saw
her, he said, "Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you
well." And from that very hour the woman was well.
Jesus said your faith has made you well which is very encouraging and
said go in peace, which relieves her mind and body from pain.
As a side: About a.d. 320,
Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea and a dependable historian records that when he
visited Caesarea Philippi, he heard that the woman healed of her issue of blood
out of gratitude for her cure had erected two brazen figures at the gate of her
house, one representing a woman bending on her knee in supplication—the other,
fashioned in the likeness of Jesus, holding out His hand to help her.
The figure had a double
cloak of brass. Eusebius adds this explicit statement as to these figures,
“They were in existence even in our day and we saw them with our own eyes when
we stayed in the city.”
This woman was
under great stress and was relieved from her trials. She was relieved, mind and
body, when she was healed and heard the word of kindness from Jesus who said,
your faith have made you well and go in peace.
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Interesting, Jesus could have healed
the woman and kept on walking to His original destination.
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Only He and the woman would have known
what had taken place. But He didn’t do that.
· Jesus stopped what He was doing and acknowledged the result of this
woman’s faith: her complete and instant healing.
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