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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 | Hank | 169754 | ||
Kalos, the spotlight is on Jesus, not the woman, in this passage. Let's observe the events in the chronological order that Mark presented them. The woman came up behind Jesus and touched his cloak, believing that she would be healed (v.28). Mark uses one of his favorite words, 'immediately' (in v.29. He says, "Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction." Thus the healing took place before, not after, the woman told Jesus "the whole truth" (v.33). She was healed before she had spoken a word to Jesus and before Jesus had as much as laid eyes on her (v. 32). Furthermore, by the time she "told Him the whole truth," her healing had already occurred. Therefore, I must conclude that this passage of Scripture does not address the question of whether we told Jesus "the whole truth" we would see more miracles, or that we would see fewer miracles if we did not. The woman's healing was based solely on her faith in Jesus. The woman believed in the healing power of Jesus: "If I just touch His garments, I will get well" (v.28). Jesus confirms her belief: "Daughter, your faith has made your well" (v.34). Thus I don't think that your question can be answered definitively from this passage alone. --Hank | ||||||