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Mark Chapter 5 verses 25-34 Jesus
Heals a Sick Woman
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25And a woman was there who
had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
26She 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.
27When she heard about Jesus,
she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
28because she thought, “If I
just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”
29Immediately her bleeding
stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30At 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?’ ”
32But Jesus kept looking
around to see who had done it.
33Then the woman, knowing
what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear,
told him the whole truth.
34He said to her, “Daughter,
your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
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Concerning Jesus healing the
woman who was subject to bleeding,
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1)
How did the woman
suffer?
o
She suffered
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From bleeding.
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Much as a result
of receiving treatment for her bleeding.
2)
What was the woman’s
experience with Jesus’ ability to heal prior to the current episode?
o
She only heard
about Jesus healing people without witnessing any actual healing by Jesus.
3)
What made the
woman think that Jesus could heal her?
o
The woman must
have heard of multiple incidents of healing by Jesus that ignited her hope that
Jesus could heal her.
4)
What other
factors were at play to make the woman think that she would be healed if she
just touched Jesus’ clothes?
o
People in ancient
time considered the clothing of a great man to carry power.
5)
What could have
been the woman’s attitude toward healing by Jesus as a result of her bad
experience with doctors?
o
She could have
become cynical about healing that she did not believe that Jesus could heal
her.
6)
What did the
woman do instead?
o
By the sheer
power of faith she dreamed up a cure that
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Cost her nothing.
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Caused her no
pain.
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Finally worked.
7)
What did the
immediacy of the woman’s healing suggest to her?
o
The immediacy of
the woman’s healing suggested to her that it was touching Jesus’ clothes that
had healed her.
8)
What was the
disciples’ attitude toward Jesus’ question about who touched him?
o
They were incredulous.
9)
Why did Jesus
insist on the woman identifying herself from among the crowd?
o
Jesus was
exacting from her a public testimony about the healing.
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Mark Chapter 5 verses 25-34 Jesus
Heals a Sick Woman
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