Her Faith made her Whole

 

Then He said to her, “Daughter, your faith [your personal trust and confidence in Me] has restored you to health; go in peace and be [permanently] healed from your suffering.” – Mark 5:34 (AMP)

Jesus was talking to a woman who had touched His garment.

This unnamed woman considered unclean by Jewish law (see Leviticus 15:19 & 25) due to her haemorrhaging non-stop for twelve years was isolated, spurned and desperate as throughout these twelve long years of suffering she could find no relief even after spending all her resources seeking medical care.

Her season of self-righteousness had run its course.

She had heard the reports concerning Jesus – Mark 5:27 (AMPC)

Have you ever been desperate for a solution to an on-going problem? This bleeding woman was.

If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health. – Mark 5:28 (AMPC)

Imagine, for a moment, this woman crawling along in the dirt to get to the One who she was convinced could save her, and getting as close to Him as she possibly could, reaching out to grab onto the only part of Jesus’ garment that her trembling hand might touch – the fringes of His outer garment, the tassels (tzitzit) hanging low from His tallit.

And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and [suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [distressing] ailment. – Mark 5:29 (AMPC)

Dunamis left Jesus’ body and entered directly into hers and He felt its flow.

This woman seemed to know that touching the fringes of His garment would be enough to release miraculous power.

the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.  And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. – Malachi 4:2 (NLT)

As a Hebrew, this woman would have been aware of three things. She would have known every word of the Lord given to Israel through the prophet Malachi. She would have known that the Sun of Righteousness was a Hebrew idiomatic expression for the Messiah, and she would have known that in her own language, wing and fringe was the same word, kanaf.

So, she knew that healing would be in the fringes of the Messiah’s garment.

Beloved, every miracle that Jesus performed was proof of His identity as the Messiah.

When she touched the fringe of Jesus’ garment, it was a proclamation of her faith, her personal trust and confidence, in Him being the Messiah – proof of His identity – and her faith made her whole.

Amen †

Shelley Johnson “Her Faith made her Whole” ©2026 January 17, 2026