A Desperate Woman With an Issue of Blood
Leviticus 15 and Jesus’s Garment in Mark 5
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While Jesus was on his way to perform a miracle, another miracle took place. A great crowd had surrounded Jesus in Mark 5, and “there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse” (Mark 5:25–26).
According to Leviticus 15, the woman was unclean. And according to the woman, Jesus was her only hope.