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NASB | Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 5:33 And the woman, though she was afraid and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. |
Subject: If we told Jesus the whole truth... |
Bible Note: Kalos, It seems to me from reading the passage that the woman was healed and the miracle occurred in verse 29 before she "told Jesus everything" in verse 34. That being said, spiritual healing, the greatest miracle of which physical healing is only a shadow often, often requires an admission of our spiritually sick state. Sin like an addiction requires an admission of of our inability to save ourselves and the need of God and His power to change that state. So, "if we admit our sins, He is quick to forgive us." On the other hand if we are like the Pharisee in the parable of the Phrarisee and the Publican and do not admit our sinful state we will not be saved, the greatest miracle of all. One of the early Church fathers writing about the Sacrament of Confession, put it this way: "if are not willing to show our wound to the physician, he cannot heal it." The same applies to the confession of our sinfulness and the need of God's healing. The women with the issue of blood knew that physicians could not cure her only the touch of Jesus, even if only the touch of the fringe of his garment. It is interesting that under Levitical law anyone or anything touched by a menstrating woman became ritually inclean. But Jesus Jesus reverses this. When someone unclean , the woman, lepers, touch Him or are touches by him, they become clean. The power of God is greater than the power of the world or sin. Emmaus |