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Your Faith Doesn't Need to be Perfect
Commentators note the woman's faith was mixed with fear, weakness, and even superstition. Yet, Jesus didn't rebuke her for her imperfect approach. Instead, He commended her faith and healed her. Scholars explain that Jesus looks at the sincere desire to reach out to Him, not the perfection of our understanding. Your trembling faith is enough to touch the all-powerful Savior.
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Albert Barnes
On Matthew 9:22
18th Century
Theologian
Mark says that the woman, fearing and trembling, came and told him all the truth. Perhaps she feared that, from the impure nature of her d…
Charles Spurgeon
On Matthew 9:13–22
19th Century
Preacher
For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, "Why do we and the Pharis…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Matthew 9:22
The nature of the woman’s hemorrhage is probably chronic bleeding from the womb, making her perpetually unclean (cf. Leviticus 15:25–33)…
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John Calvin
On Matthew 9:22
16th Century
Theologian
Take courage, my daughter. This expression shows the weakness of her faith, for had there been no impropriety in her trembling, C…
John Gill
On Matthew 9:22
17th Century
Pastor
But Jesus turned him about
Knowing what was done behind him, that virtue was gone out of him, that the woman had tou…
Matthew Henry
On Matthew 9:18–26
17th Century
Minister
The death of our relatives should drive us to Christ, who is our life. And it is a high honor for the greatest rulers to serve the Lord Jesus; and …
Thomas Aquinas
On Matthew 9:18–26
13th Century
Philosopher
The Evangelist has related the miracles by which remedies were applied against the dangers of sin; here, he relates those miracles by which remedie…