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1 | If we told Jesus the whole truth... | Mark 5:33 | kalos | 169714 | ||
Please read Mark 5:24b-34 (quoted here) and answer the question that follows it. All replies will be welcomed and appreciated. 24b A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She 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. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At 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?' " 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Mark 5:24b-34 Question: 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." If we told Jesus the whole truth would we see more miracles? Why or why not? Grace to you, Kalos |
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2 | If we told Jesus the whole truth... | Mark 5:33 | DocTrinsograce | 169739 | ||
Dear Brother Kalos, That particular question appears to have been written in an effort to extract a principle from the narrative of Mark 5:24b-34. As you know, we do not draw doctrine from narrative except in those moments of narrative where teaching is taking place. On the other hand, the question might have been written in an effort to draw application from the passage. To properly critique the question itself I'd need to know the surrounding teaching of which it is a part. Nevertheless, it presupposes something about the event in question. It assumes that the profluvious woman was healed due to her confession of the "whole truth" to Christ. Not only had her healing occurred prior to her account to the Lord, we also cannot find any such causal connection in the passage. Mark's purpose in writing this Gospel was to lay out a strait-forward account of the works and words of Jesus to Galilean Christians. The Galileans had little knowledge of the Old Testament, consequently Mark appeals to it far fewer times than the other gospels -- only once, if memory serves. Consequently, the question we should be asking regarding passages like this in Mark's Gospel is "What does it tell us about Jesus?" This particular woman was probably from Capernaum (v21). She had an affliction of unstaunche blood-flow for a dozen years (v25). She sought healing from many physicians, at great cost and pain, but to no avail; indeed, the malady only worsened (v26). She had confidence in Christ's ability to heal (v28), and touching His garments (v27), the disease was gone (v29). Christ supernaturally knows that this has taken place (v30), and asks the question, "Who touched me?" Certainly this question wasn't asked in an effort to obtain information, because He looks right at her (v32). Instead, the question afforded the opportunity for the woman to testify regarding her healing (v33). Christ blesses her and affirms her faith (v34). So, what do we see of Jesus in this passage? Off the top of my head, here are few thoughts: 1. Christ's healing is always accompanied by the kind of faith that seeks Him out. 2. Christ's healing is superior to all of the ministrations of the world, which only worsen our condition. 3. Christ has authority over disease. 4. Christ knows those who come to Him in faith. 5. Christ is the only real source of relief from suffering. There are other things we might say regarding faith, but I think these things are the primary points we can make regarding Christ from this passage. Of course, the full picture is only available by reading the context of the events before and after this one. We must seek to understand what Mark is saying about Christ in the passage, section, and book, integrating the whole. So, I'd have to venture that the Bible study question you posted misses the point of Scripture: It isn't all about us, rather, it is all about Him! That's my two mites... hope they help. In Him, Doc |
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