Bible Lesson: Miracles Of Jesus-Woman With The Issue Of Blood Healed
Bible Location: Capernaum.
Bible Text: Mark 5:25-34 KJV (Matthew 9:20-22/ Luke 8:43-48)
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched His garment.
28 For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole.
29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched My clothes?
31 And His disciples said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
32 And He looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth.
34 And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
In this story we are told about an unknown Jewish woman, who had been sick, with an unending issue of blood for some twelve years.
In the book of Leviticus we read, that she was accordingly “unclean,” by orthodox standards. She could not go to the temple to worship, nor be in the company of her relatives.
Leviticus 15:25 NLT
If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.
Mark writes that the woman “had suffered many things.”
Oh the suffering of sickness.
Though in the oppression of pain, yet this woman, out of an instinct of survival, reached out to the physicians of her day.
She had gone to “...many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,”
Truly, there is only one who understand the working intricacies of human soul, spirit, and body, and that is the Creator.
Psalm 139:13-18 KJV
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalm 148:5 KJV
Let them praise the name of the Lord: for He commanded, and they were created.
Malachi 2:10 KJV
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?..."
The woman, had no doubt heard about Jesus, the miracle worker, who claimed to be God's Son.
She had absolutely nothing to loose, she would go to Him.
She knew she couldn't approach a holy man personally for she was unclean, yet she thought within herself “If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole.”
This woman, was not wealthy, for she “ had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,”
She wasn't a person of any notoriety, on the contrary, she was poor and for the most part unknown.
And yet, she possessed something more valuable than all these, for she had a heart filled with faith, that she would find the answer she needed, and she believed, Jesus, was that answer she had need all along.
Would early believers have endorsed her actions? Yes.
Read the post ... Veneration
Jesus the God of healing:
Exodus 15:26 KJV
"...for I am the Lord that healeth thee."
Exodus 23:25 KJV
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 7:15 KJV
"And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness..."
Isaiah 53:5 KJV
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
Matthew 4:23 KJV
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Matthew 8:17 KJV
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Matthew 9:35 KJV
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 10:1 KJV
And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples, He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Mark 6:56 KJV
And whither soever He entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole.
Luke 4:18 KJV
The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 5:15 KJV
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of Him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.
Mark 5:29-31 KJV
29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched My clothes?
31 And His disciples said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Our living God, knows and cares for His people:
Psalm 103:13-17 NLT
13 The Lord is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him.
14 For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust.
15 Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
16 The wind blows, and we are gone— as though we had never been here.
17 But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear Him.
Isaiah 63:9 KJV
In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them: in His love and in his pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Hebrews 4:14-16 NLT
14 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.
15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same testings we do, yet He did not sin.
16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
I Peter 5:7 KJV
Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you.
Mark 5:32-34 KJV
32 And He looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth.
34 And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Dear friend, let's have faith in God!
Psalm 37:4,5 KJV
4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.
Matthew 17:20 KJV
And Jesus said unto them...If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew 21:22 KJV
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mark 9:23 KJV
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
I John 5:4;14,15 KJV
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us:
15 And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
