Mark 5:24-34
Power of Jesus
24So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
31"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' "
32But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
In the story here, Jesus is being followed and pressed by a large crowd...He is busy in the sense that He had just healed a demon possessed man in Gerasenes...People want to see what He is going to do...He has healed others, like no other doctor...He spoke like no other Man has ever spoken...And some followers felt that He had a charisma, a kind of power, that couldn't quite be explained...He has this divine charisma...When He crosses over a lake by boat, two people need His help there...
Jesus has power...He has a Divine Power in Himself...Some people realize this, others don't...The sick woman in the Gospel of Mark realizes that Jesus has this power...She realizes if she touches Him, she will be healed...To reach and feel His Divine Power, we need something...We must have faith in Him...When Jesus clothes are touched, He feels some of His Divine Power has left Him...The woman is immediately healed, she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering (what a feeling she had when she touched Him)...He ask His disciples who has touched Him...The large crowd is surrounding them, and they do not realize who has touched their Master...But Jesus is Divine...He knows who has touched Him...He wants the one who has touched Him to come forward...The sick woman, who had touched Him and is now healed, comes and falls at His feet...She was trembling in fear, and told Him the whole truth...Upon hearing the whole truth, her whole story, He calls her daughter...He tells her that her faith has healed her, go in peace and be freed from your suffering...She is healed, because of her faith and His Divine Power...Jesus and the Father are One (John 10:30)...Jesus has healed the sick woman...
This woman had been sick for twelve years and had been to many doctors...But instead of getting better, she got worse...She had no where to go now...Sometimes Jesus and God are the only places we can turn to...There are times in our lives when we need to turn to Him for His Divine Power...We need His touch...He can touch us with the Holy Spirit that He gives us...He is Immanuel, which means God with us (Matthew 1:23)...To get His Divine Power, like the sick woman did, we need faith in Him...Faith connects us to Jesus...