Jesus looked around
and saw the woman
afraid and trembling,
and she fell at Jesus’
feet and told Him
what she had done.
Then Jesus in all love
said to her, Daughter,
thy faith hath made
thee whole; go in
peace, and be whole of
thy plague (Mark 5:34).
Imagine how those words
must have burned in her heart.
She no doubt repeated them over
and over again to herself and to others
as she testified of her miracle.
When you receive a miracle, it is important
to share that experience with others so they
can receive hope to receive their miracle, too.
The great faith of the woman with the issue
of blood and what she did and received no
doubt spread to others because we read in the
next chapter that when Jesus and His disciples
got off the boat and entered into the land of
Gennesaret, the word quickly spread throughout
the region. People brought their sick and
laid them out in the streets to be healed. And
they besought him that they might touch
if it were but the border of his garment:
and as many as touched him were made
whole (Mark 6:56).
Those who reached out in perfect faith with
no doubt were made completely whole, and
that means they received a miracle for everything.
Jesus didn’t heal people of just one
thing; He healed them of everything.
Be Made Whole
In John’s Gospel, we find Jesus in Jerusalem
at the Pool of Bethesda where a multitude of
people who were sick and afflicted were waiting
for an angel to come down and trouble
the water. When that happened, the first one
who stepped into the water was made whole
of whatever disease they had. Now there is
at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay
a great multitude of
impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered,
waiting for
the moving of
the water. For an
angel went down
at a certain season
into the pool, and
troubled the water:
whosoever then first
after the troubling of
the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever
disease he had (John 5:2–4).
The person was made whole all
over, not just partially.
I’m sure that was a stressful situation as
desperate, sick people competed for a place
up front so they could be the first one into
the water when the angel came. One person
who was at the pool the day Jesus was there
was a man who had been sick and unable to
walk for 38 years. No doubt many times, he
had watched others step over him to get to the
water when the angel stirred it; but the man
had great hope that one day, he would make it
into the water first. The man had missed out
on receiving his miracle for so long, but Jesus
doesn’t want us to miss receiving a miracle.
Jesus saw the man at the pool that day, and
He knew he had been there a long time; so He
asked him, Wilt thou be made whole? The
impotent man answered him, Sir, I have
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