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And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood ° twelve years,

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

For she said, If ° I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

Mark 5:26

5:26 all that she had. Large and fruitless medical bills are apparently not uniquely a modern phenomenon! It is interesting that in his parallel account, Luke (who was himself a physician) did mention that she had unsuccessfully spent all she had on physicians, but could not bring himself to the further acknowledgment that she “rather grew worse!”

Mark 5:30

5:30 virtue had gone out. “Virtue” is used here in the sense of its original meaning, “strength,” or “power.” See note on Philippians 4:8.

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