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A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
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A Picture of Sin's Condition
Commentators like John Gill and Matthew Henry see this woman as a powerful emblem of a sinner. Her 12-year illness made her ceremonially unclean and was incurable by human means, much like sin pollutes us and cannot be fixed by our own efforts. Her story illustrates our desperate need for a divine touch from Christ for healing and salvation.
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19th Century
Baptist
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 bett…
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. Probab…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years.] (See Gill on Matthew 9:20). This woman was in the…
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Presbyterian
A despised gospel will go where it will be better received. One of the rulers of a synagogue earnestly pleaded with Christ for a little daughter, a…
