The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

TOUCHING THE BORDER OF
CHRIST'S ROBE
The Woman with an Issue of Blood
"And touched the border of his garment." Luke viii. 44.
The case of this woman was extremely pathetic.
For twelve years she had groaned under her complaint,
banned by the law, banished from intercourse
from her friends, trying many physicians, being worse
rather than better for their treatment, and after
having long been reduced to hopelessness, she is
now awakened to a new possibility. He had
come concerning whom the national bard had said
" He healeth all thy diseases," and with a feeling of
expectation in her mind, to which she had long been
a stranger, she came to the new Healer who had
risen among men. His fame had gone far and
wide, He had cured people of every ailment, with
the ease and readiness which proved Him to have
unfailing resources. He was even then proceeding
on a mission in behalf of the daughter of a rich
functionary in the Jewish Church when He was
arrested by a unique experience. " Virtue had gone
out of Him." No words had passed, no appeal had
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