Jesus at Capernaum and the crowd seems to be pushed around. You just got back from Jerash, the other side of the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, where he healed a man possessed indomitable.
He approaches one of the leaders of the synagogue and begged him to come to his house. Her daughter is sick and dying. Jesus sets out with him and with some disciples. The crowd followed him. The road is narrow and the crowd is almost incredibile.Non you know where to put your feet to walk.
Suddenly, Jesus stops.
"Who touched me?" She asks.
"Master, here you push on all sides ... How do to ask who touched you ... "
" No, I have heard that power has gone out of me! "
Silence. No one talks.
Finally a woman, trembling, approaches him and confesses everything.
She was sick for twelve years of a disease that made her unclean. It was a loss of blood, that no doctor was able to cure. She had spent all he had to heal, but it was worse than ever.
Then it was said: "If I just touch the hem of the dress of that rabbi of Nazareth, I will be healed." He took courage, he was confused in the crowd and barely touched the Lord, he immediately felt that his illness was gone.
Jesus said a reassuring word: "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace. "
not only his body was healed, but his soul was saved. Why did Jesus
forced her to a public confession? Not threatened to shame him in front of everyone?
Certainly not. It never did with those who approached him with humility and faith.
I believe rather that he wanted to reassure her even spiritually. His body was recovered, but he might get sick again. It was important to know that his soul was safe forever.
The health of the body is a good thing, but the spirit is the much more. So I wonder why in our prayer meetings at church people are talking about physical illness and so many cures and wonder we never hear of spiritual healing. Why not please them to stop gossip and slander, envy and discouragement? And that grant of pardon due for years and many end up suspects?
Do you agree? Let me know.
This story is found in Matthew 9:20-22, Luke 8:43-48.
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