Mark 5:25-30 (KJV) And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.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?
Prior to this event in Mark 5:25-30 people have been touching Jesus on different occasions when he is ministering in the crowd but such touch has no record of any miracle attached to them because those who touched did so with no intentions to receive any form of miracle. Those that touched before this event touched Him in order to have something to brag or boast about when discussing with family and friends. To them is enough to boast to their friends, family, neighbours, colleagues that on this and that occasion when Jesus was ministering they were able to touch Jesus in the press and that’s all.
But the woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus purposefully. She was intentional in her touch. Her touch of Jesus’ garment was her action in line to receive her desired miracle of healing from the issue of blood which she has suffered from for twelve years. She has an expectation which is to be healed. She had the faith that touching Jesus would bring the healing. She put her faith to work by making the effort to touch Jesus’ garment irrespective of the crowd and she was healed.
Jesus would have kept quiet and allow the woman to go unnoticed by the crowd. Jesus is God and all knowing, He knows who touched Him and the miracle that took place in the person’s life. Infact He has the woman’s details even before she was conceived in her mother’s womb but Jesus asked the question ”who touched me?” in order to teach the crowd that healings also take place when people touch Him intentionally and not only when He touched them. Jesus created the awareness.
If you read the bible carefully you will notice that after the woman with the issue of blood got healed by touching Jesus’ garment so many other people got their healing by touching Jesus’ garment.
Mark 6:56 And whithersoever 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.
Prayer: 🙏 Father thank you that I can touch Jesus by faith and be healed.