From the start of Jesus’ ministry after John baptized him people started following him. Early on his followers were mainly curious about who this itinerant teacher was. Crowds were sparse at first, but as he continued teaching the crowds began to swell. Eventually, skeptics and critical naysayers joined the crowds. The Jewish officials–Sadducees and Pharisees started joining the crowd. The crowds kept pushing and shoving in hopes of getting a glimpse of Jesus. The Sadducees and Pharisees felt threatened by Jesus’ teaching and his appeal to the crowds.
There was a common woman in the crowd who had been suffering with an tissue of blood for 12 years. She heard that this teacher heals people and she desperately wanted to be healed.
It would be a struggle to work her way through that rowdy bunch of onlookers. She was already in pain moving and inching through all those people who were already agitated and mumbling. She had to crawl part of the way and push herself through the bustling crowd.
She finally saw Jesus but she’d have to push through more people to get to him. She’d have to crawl up to him. She finally reached him. With a painful push she reached out and touched his garment
“If I just touch His garments, I will [j]get well.” 29 And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up,and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. When she touched his garmen t Jesus immediately turned around and faced the crowd and asked, “Who touched me. I felt power go out of me? He already knew who it was who touched him. The woman, completely healed now, reluctantly and timidly stepped away from the crowd and stood next to Jesus. “Your faith has healed you,” Jesus said.
She separated herself from the crowd. There is a big difference between a crowd and I community of faith. A crowd has no purpose. A community of faith interacts with one another and has a purpose usually to honor God.
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There was a common town woman