The healing of a woman with endless flow of blood:While on his way to Jairus’ house, with a large crowd following him, Jesus en countered a woman who had had an endless flow of blood for 12 years and had visited the doctors with no success. She came behind Jesus and touched his cloak and immediately, her flow of blood stopped. Jesus asked who had touched him. He said this for he sensed that Power had gone out of him. And when the woman saw that she had been discovered, she fell before Jesus. Jesus then told her that her faith had made her well. Jesus demanded to know who had touched her because: i. He wanted her healing to be made public so that her unclean status could be removed. ii. She could now be received into the society because one suffering from such kind of disease was not supposed to mix with others.iii. Jesus wanted to show the woman and all those present that it was the woman’s faith that had healed her. iv. The woman was a Gentile. Jesus wanted to show that
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