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Mark 5 is the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Taken with the calming of the sea in Mark 4:35–41 , there are "four striking works [which] follow each other without a break": [ 1 ] an exorcism , a healing , and the raising of Jairus' daughter .
Unsatisfied, Jesus keeps inspecting the crowd until the now-healed woman, trembling in fear, falls at Jesus' feet and admits that it was her. Jesus answers: "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace (and be freed from your suffering)", concluding the Markan and Lukan bleeding woman accounts (Mark 5:25–34, Luke 8:43–48). [5]: 63–67
Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
The curing of a bleeding woman appears in Mark 5:21–43, Matthew 9:18–26 and Luke 8:40–56, along with the miracle of the daughter of Jairus. [25] The Gospels state that while heading to Jairus's house, Jesus was approached by a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years and that she touched Jesus's cloak ( fringes of his garment ) and was ...
He further writes that, "the devil, therefore, made this woman crooked and bent, to compel her always to look down upon the earth." [ 3 ] John McEvilly writes that the verb "loosed" (gk: λύω) [ 4 ] is used in this passage because previously her sinews and muscles had been contracted, while after the cure, "immediately she was straight ...
Etching by Pietro del Po, The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure, c. 1650.. The woman described in the miracle, the Syrophoenician woman (Mark 7:26; [8] Συροφοινίκισσα, Syrophoinikissa) is also called a "Canaanite" (Matthew 15:22; [9] Χαναναία, Chananaia) and is an unidentified New Testament woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon.
Chrysostom: This, she arose and ministered unto them, shows at once the Lord's power, and the woman's feeling towards Christ. [ 7 ] Bede : Figuratively; Peter's house is the Law, or the circumcision, his mother-in-law the synagogue, which is as it were the mother of the Church committed to Peter.
The closest written reference is the miracle of Jesus healing the bleeding woman by touching the hem of Jesus' garment; [5] her name is later identified as Veronica by the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate". The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured ...