Mark 5:30-31

The woman's confession: V. 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? V. 31. And His disciples said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging Thee, and sayest Thou, Who touched Me?

Jesus, the almighty God, is also omniscient. He knew all the while what the poor woman had been planning in her anxiety to regain her health. He was also fully conscious in Himself that a miraculous power had gone forth from Him. He had permitted the people before to touch Him in order to be made whole, chapter 3, 10.

But here was a case in which the woman had taken the liberty, in trusting faith, to draw the healing power out of Him. So He made ready to test her faith. Turning round, He inquired whether anyone had touched His clothes, or, more exactly: Who touched My clothes? And He immediately looked about to see whether the woman would confess.

To the disciples His question seemed more than strange. He was in the midst of the crowd, jostled on all sides. Why, then, ask the question as to who had touched Him?