Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Mark 5:25

"And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years," — Mark 5:25 (ASV)

At this point Mark inserts the story of the healing of the woman with a hemorrhage. The precise nature of the woman’s ailment is not stated. Probably some sort of uterine disease caused the bleeding that had persisted for twelve years. Mark includes vivid details: she had suffered much, had been treated by many doctors, and had spent all she had. But her condition had gotten worse.