Mark 5:30–34 Single Mindedly Seeking Jesus

“Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?” His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”” Mark‬ ‭5:30–34‬ ‭NLT‬‬

It’s often said that Jesus already knew who touched Him, but I’m not so sure about that. Jesus took on the limitations of man fully. Otherwise He couldn’t experience everything we do and still not sin, making Him a perfect sacrifice. Could He have accessed that information if He wanted to? Yes. Did He? I don’t think so.

The thing that really strikes me here is that there isn’t any apparent involvement of Jesus’s will in this healing. He ‘realised’ it ‘had’ happened.

Sometimes Jesus clearly indicates that He made a choice to heal but this incident reveals a different aspect or type of supernatural healing. Power was drawn rather than consciously given by Jesus.

Jesus was surrounded by people looking to Him, listening to Him, fascinated by Him. I’m sure there were many experiencing all sorts of problems they wanted help with but only this one lady drew power from Him. It wasn’t a matter of Jesus’s choice whether she was healed. He didn’t know which person it was. Was it that she was the only one who completely believed He could heal her and was single-mindedly seeking Him? He says it was her faith, so to me He is saying that’s what faith looks like!

A lot of Christians gather around Jesus and most want something from Him. How many of us are single-mindedly seeking Him and His will? How many of us have what Jesus calls faith?

Do I?