Getting to Know Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Study Twenty-Seven:
Mark 5:25-34
25 And there was a woman who
had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and
who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had,
and was no better but rather grew worse. 27 She
had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and
touched his garment. 28 For she said,
“If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And
immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was
healed of her disease. 30 And Jesus,
perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned
about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the
crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched
me?’” 32 And he
looked around to see who had done it. 33 But
the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and
fell down before him and told him the whole truth. 34 And
he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well;
go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” (Mark 5)
1. Describe the
life of this woman who comes to Jesus for help.
2. What is
presented as the reason that the woman came to Jesus like this? What lesson
would that give us for today?
3. There was
something the woman heard, something she believed, something she did, and
something she got. To what extent is this a pattern for relating to Jesus?
4. What do we learn
about Jesus in the way he responded to the woman’s actions?
5. What
encouragement do we get from the connection between the way the woman came to
Jesus when he asked who had touched him, and the way Jesus related to the woman
when she came?
6. Through God’s
word you have heard reports about Jesus. How have these affected your beliefs,
your actions, and your experience of God?
7. In context, this
situation happened in-between Jesus being asked to heal Jairus’s daughter, and
him arriving at Jairus’s home. What would this miracle contribute to Jairus’s
faith? How are both these miracles contributing to your faith?
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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