Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to be called out of a crowd -- out of the relative safety of a group -- because you’ve been caught at something you would never dream of doing out in the open? And then, in front of all those people have to explain yourself? Honestly, I don’t know how that poor woman that Jesus meets on his way to heal Jairus’s daughter found the courage to be there in the first place.
In the Greek, Mark’s description of her situation is this series of participles piling one on top of another. The literal English translation goes something like "And a woman— having been bleeding for twelve years, and having suffered greatly from many physicians, and having spent all she had, and having benefited not one bit, but rather having gone from bad to worse, having heard about Jesus, having come in the crowd from behind…”
It’s like we can feel her, right? We feel her labored breathing... (read more)
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