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I would like to do a small study on the woman who had been bleeding for many years without a cure as told in mark 5. Unless noted otherwise, I’ll be using the Net Bible.
Net Bible Mark 5:25-34 Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years. She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.†At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?†His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’†But he looked around to see who had done it. Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.â€
From first glance, this looks pretty simple, but what I’ve found, and hope to share is that there is a lot going on here just under the surface, and I’d like to explore some of that. Now, to start with, I want to address the culture and widely accepted doctrines of the day. Note, this isn’t a study on what I’m about to post, but simply, it’s used by way of example.
John 9:1-2 Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?â€
The first question I have is, why do these deciples believe that this man was born in sin? Where did this idea come from? Well, if we read the account in John, we find out that this teaching came from the religious leaders, and not only that, but the leaders who professed to know the scriptures, and keep the scriptures as attested by their own words.
John 9:34 They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?†So they threw him out.
If you dig a bit deeper as to why they believed this, I would assume that it comes from two passages in Exodus which speak of Generational sin which have been improperly discerned. These verses can be found in Exodus 20:5 and Exodus 34:7
But what I want us to take with us into this study from John 9, is that it was readily accepted (although not true) that if one had an ailment or disability, it was due to sin and those with disabilities, or afflicted by disease were commonly rejected as sinners in need of repentance.
Net Bible Mark 5:25-34 Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years. She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.†At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?†His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’†But he looked around to see who had done it. Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.â€
From first glance, this looks pretty simple, but what I’ve found, and hope to share is that there is a lot going on here just under the surface, and I’d like to explore some of that. Now, to start with, I want to address the culture and widely accepted doctrines of the day. Note, this isn’t a study on what I’m about to post, but simply, it’s used by way of example.
John 9:1-2 Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?â€
The first question I have is, why do these deciples believe that this man was born in sin? Where did this idea come from? Well, if we read the account in John, we find out that this teaching came from the religious leaders, and not only that, but the leaders who professed to know the scriptures, and keep the scriptures as attested by their own words.
John 9:34 They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?†So they threw him out.
If you dig a bit deeper as to why they believed this, I would assume that it comes from two passages in Exodus which speak of Generational sin which have been improperly discerned. These verses can be found in Exodus 20:5 and Exodus 34:7
But what I want us to take with us into this study from John 9, is that it was readily accepted (although not true) that if one had an ailment or disability, it was due to sin and those with disabilities, or afflicted by disease were commonly rejected as sinners in need of repentance.
