Woman Touches Jesus is Cured by Her Faith 

The morning after his encounter with Amos, the Kheresa lunatic, Jesus was greeted by a throng of people who had already heard the story. Many were there hoping to receive healing. Among them was Jairus, a ruler in the synagogue. He implored Jesus to come to his home and minister to his daughter, and Jesus agreed to go with him.

On the way, Jesus was surrounded by a crowd of onlookers and others who desired healing; he was being pushed and shoved by the large crowd. Suddenly, Jesus stopped and said, “Someone touched me.” However, it was not simply a physical touch he perceived; Jesus said he felt “living energy” going from him.

Upon surveying the crowd, he saw a woman from Caesarea-Philippi come forward to kneel at his feet. She told Jesus that she had long suffered from a debilitating hemorrhage and that she had given up on being healed by doctors. She told him that after she heard about Jesus, she knew that he could heal her if she could get close enough to touch the hem of his garment, which she had just done. And she knew right then and there that she had been healed. Jesus took her hand and stood her up, declaring that her faith had made her whole.

And this was a case of true miraculous faith healing.

The morning after Jesus had the encounter with Amos, the Kheresa lunatic, he and the apostles were greeted by a large crowd; the news had already reached Bethsaida and Capernaum, and Jesus graciously spoke with those who had assembled, many of whom were hoping for healing.

Jairus, one of the synagogue rulers, came so close to Jesus that he could fall at his feet. Jairus took Jesus’ hand and begged him to come to his house because his only child – his little daughter – was at home, close to death. He said: “I pray that you will come and heal her.” And Jesus answered: “I will go with you.”

And as they walked along, the crowd followed to see what would happen next. But before they could go very far through a narrow street, Jesus suddenly stopped as he was being pushed and shoved by the crowd. He said loudly, “Someone touched me.” Peter stated that so many people were around him; how could he say someone touched him? It seemed that everyone was touching him at that point. But Jesus answered, “I asked who touched me, for I perceived that living energy had gone forth from me.”

At that moment, Jesus looked around and noticed a woman who came forward. Her name was Veronica, and she was from Caesarea-Philippi. She knelt at his feet and said: “For years, I have been afflicted with a scourging hemorrhage. I have suffered many things from many physicians; I have spent all my substance, but none could cure me. Then I heard of you, and I thought if I may but touch the hem of his garment, I shall certainly be made whole. And so I pressed forward with the crowd as it moved along until, standing near you, Master, I touched the border of your garment, and I was made whole; I know that I have been healed of my affliction.” Jesus took her hand and lifted her up, saying: “Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in peace.”

This was a case of a miraculous healing that Jesus did not consciously will to happen. It was what one could call a true faith healing; her faith was such that it was only necessary that she approach the person of Jesus. Her faith could access his creative power, which is what he felt when it passed from his person to her. She didn’t even have to touch his garment. In time, it became clear that this woman’s disease was truly cured. This instance is one example of many miraculous cures that happened during Jesus’ time on earth.

When he told Veronica that her faith had made her whole, he wanted her to know that it wasn’t the act of touching his garment that had been effective; that was mere superstition on her part. It wasn’t that she somehow “stole” her healing without his knowing. He wanted her and everyone else who witnessed this healing to know that her pure and living faith alone had affected her complete cure.