Jesus healing the bleeding woman
Jesus healing the bleeding woman (or "woman with an issue of blood" and other variants) is one of the miracles of Jesus recorded in the synoptic gospels.
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[edit]- And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.
- Gospel of Matthew 9:20-22 NKJV.
- Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”
Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”
But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”
And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”- Gospel of Mark 5:25-34 NKJV.
- Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.
And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”
But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.
And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”- Gospel of Luke 8:43-48 NKJV.
Others
[edit]- The woman with the issue of blood is inexorably considered unclean. Not only during the seven days of ritual impurity. Always, every day, every month, all year round. For twelve years, Mark specifies. Twelve is the number of fullness: there are twelve months in the year, twelve tribes of Israel. Hers is a full pain, a perfect pain. She is impure: no one can touch her, caress her, embrace her. If she has a husband, he has certainly left her long ago. If she touches someone, she transmits her impurity and that person must purify themselves in order to enter the temple. She is a leper without having leprosy, untouchable without having a contagious disease. She is condemned by a religious rule that has lasted for centuries. How much loneliness can dwell in the heart of a human being? How much pain are we able to bear? How much pain has filled this woman's life?
- q:it:Paolo Curtaz, Gesù guarisce, San Paolo Edizioni, 2014, p. 119 (in Italian). ISBN 9788821590764
