Mk 5:34b “…your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction. ”

Summary Notes

What did Jesus say?

Jesus told a woman who had just been instantly released from her dozen years of misery to know that she had been healed indeed and that she could depart in peace.

Why would He say this?

The woman snuck up stealthily in a thronging crowd believing that just a touch of Jesus’ garment would heal her incurable bleeding. She was right but she could no longer hide in the crowd because Jesus perceived that power had gone out to accomplish the miracle. When He outed her actions she was terrified as if she had stolen something. But Jesus put her fears to rest by assuring her that He saw her and cared about her and that her healing was permanent. She need not fear any longer but was free to rejoice. 

The woman was in desperate need and she believed that she would receive what she sought. She formed a goal and made a plan and took definite steps to achieve her goal. She was  blessed with success.  I think there is a lesson here for me! 

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Command 191: “…go …and be healed…”

REFERENCE:  

Mk 5:34b  also Mt 9:22 and Lk 8:43-48;
Also see Lk 7:50 in a separate context

RECIPIENT:  

A woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years

CONTEXT: Three accounts from Mark, Matthew and Luke

Mark

Mk 5:21-34a  When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore. ²²One of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up, and on seeing Him, fell at His feet ²³and implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.” ²⁴And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.  

 ²⁵A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, ²⁶and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse– ²⁷after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.   ²⁸For she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” ²⁹Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. ³⁰Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?“ ³¹And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?'” ³²And He looked around to see the woman who had done this. ²³But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.   ³⁴And He said to her…

Matthew – does not contain the command

Mt 9:18-22  While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”   ¹⁹Jesus got up and began to follow him, and so did His disciples.

 ²⁰And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;   ²¹for she was saying to herself, “If I only touch His garment, I will get well.”   ²²But Jesus turning and seeing her said…

Luke

Lk 8:40-48a  And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.   ⁴¹And there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began to implore Him to come to his house;  ⁴²for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.  

⁴³And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,  ⁴⁴came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped.  ⁴⁵And Jesus said, “Who is the one who touched Me?” And while they were all denying it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You.”  ⁴⁶But Jesus said, “Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.”  ⁴⁷When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.  ⁴⁸And He said to her…

COMMAND FULL TEXT:  

Mk 5:34 …“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction.” 

Mt 9:22 …“Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.” 

Lk 8:48  …“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

RESULT:  

Mk 5:29  Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Mt 9:22b At once the woman was made well. 

Lk 8:44b  …and immediately her hemorrhage stopped.

MY  COMMENTS AND NOTES:

The woman’s condition would have been miserable. It made her ceremonially unclean which meant that she would have been excluded from worshiping at the temple.  Her condition would have made her interactions with people difficult.  Her social life would have been nonexistent. If her bleeding was vaginal, then the Jewish Levitical laws meant that she likely had not had sex during the 12 years of her affliction.  She was financially broke.

Luke names the synagogue official as Jairis and mentions his daughter was 12 years old. The woman had been suffering for 12 years.  I wonder; if there was any connection with these individuals because of the years?  

Both the woman and Jaris came to Jesus believing that He was good natured and would care about them. Therefore both had a certain expectation that He would help them. In a word they had faith in Jesus. They both acted on their faith and did receive what they sought from Him. Both the woman and Jaris’s daughter got their life back!  Somehow faith is a powerful tool in God’s hands.

At different times and locations Jesus told men, women and children to “take courage,” Jesus referred to the paralytic who was let down through the roof as a child and he told him or her to, “Take courage.”  This woman was trembling when Jesus told her to take courage.   Jesus also told a blind man to take courage before healing him.  He treated them the same and healed them all miraculously.  These examples are subtle but clear demonstrations that Jesus did not distinguish between child and adult or male and female in terms of intrinsic worth.

DEFINITIONS:  Key Greek Words – Removes ambiguity of the Bible text

daughter:  G2364 θυγάτηρ  thoo-gat’-air —  a female child

take courage: G2293  θαρσέω  thar-seh’-ō  —  be of good cheer (comfort)

your:  G4675  σοῦ  soo —  of you 

faith:  G4102  πίστις  pis’-tis —  persuasion, that is, credence or moral conviction

well:  G4982  σώζω  sōde’-zō  —  literally or figuratively to save, deliver or protect 

MY PERSONAL APPLICATION: I encourage you to make your own application and please share it in the comments

Two applications stand out to me. First, Jesus accorded an equal value to men, women and children when He interacted with them and therefore, so should I. Second, both individuals had a humble attitude and took physical steps to demonstrate their faith. Therefore when I approach someone for help, especially God, I also need to have a humble attitude and when possible take definite steps to demonstrate faith that I will receive the help. 

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© 2021 Christopher Carlson

Scripture quotations taken from the NASB

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