The Compassion
Of Jesus Christ
“Jesus,
perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned
about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my garments?’ ” (v. 30).
As Jesus made His way with a great
crowd of people to the house of Jairus, a woman who suffered from continual
bleeding reached out to touch Christ’s garment, believing that the touch could
make her well (Mark 5:21–29). But her
healing was not the end of her story, for today’s passage tells us that she met
Jesus face-to-face.
Interestingly,
Jesus did not know at first who had touched His clothing. The text says that He
felt “that power had gone out from him” (v. 30), which is a reference to the
divine power He exercised during His ministry. Jesus knew someone had been
healed, but He did not know who. Here we see a manifestation of the two natures
of our Lord. As Scripture indicates, Christ unites in His one person a human
nature and the divine nature such that the properties of each remain peculiar
to each nature and there is no mixing or confusing of humanity and deity. Some
things that Jesus does, He does according to His divine nature. For instance,
the person of Jesus performed miracles according to His deity. Other things He
does according to His human nature. Human beings have to eat, so His eating was
done according to His humanity. In the healing of this woman, we see His divine
nature (His power goes out to heal her) and His human nature (He did not know
according to His humanity who touched Him).
We
noted in our study on Mark 5:24b–29 that the faith of this
woman was likely mixed with some superstitious notions. That helps explain, as
one commentator notes, why Jesus stopped to find out who touched Him. Although
her faith was genuine, Christ could not let her believe that His clothing had
some kind of supernatural healing power. Thus, He told her that her faith had
made her well (v. 34). But that does not mean the faith in itself had
power—after all, it was mixed with false beliefs; rather, her faith could heal
her because of the object in whom it rested, namely, Jesus Himself. Christ’s
garments had no power, but He did, and the woman was healed because of her
faith in the all-powerful Savior. In other words, Jesus wanted to make sure she
understood that it was He who had healed her. It was a statement
of instruction.
Jesus’ interaction also shows His
compassion toward this woman. He addressed her with the intimate familial
term daughter. She had feared Him, and He wanted her not to be
afraid (vv. 33–34).
Scripture reveals to us that God is
all-powerful, but it also shows us that this power is tempered with tenderness
toward those who trust Him. If we have been reconciled to the Lord through
Christ, we discover that God is not only a powerful being but also a loving
Father. He will discipline us, but that is because He loves us, and His
discipline is always informed by His tender care for His children.
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