Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 5:34
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Mark5:34
34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made the whole, go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
See the Notes on Matth. 9.18. upon this whole History; containing a passage which happened in the way betwixt the place, where our Saviour first heard of the Sickness of Iairus his Daughter and his House, whither our Saviour was now going; we shall in these Histories observe our Saviour propounding several Questions to Persons, of the matter to which they related, he could not be presumed to be ignorant, being as to his Divine Nature Omniscient, but he only propounded them for the bettering of the knowledge of those to whom or amongst whom he spake, that his Miracles might be more fully, and distinctly understood. So also he is said to have known many things (as here, that Vertue was gone out of him) which he only knew as he was God, and knew all things. It is also observable how Christ incourageth the first Rudiments of saving Faith in Christ. All that we read of this Woman, is, that she said, If I may but touch the Hem of his Garment, I shall be whole, this was much short of her owning and receiving him as her Lord, and Saviour. It amounted to no more, than a perswasion she had of his Divine Power, and goodness, and that with respect to the healing of a bodily Distemper, neither doth it import her believing him to be the Eternal Son of God, but one to whom God had Communicated a power of healing; in this confidence she cometh unto him, and toucheth the Border of his Garment, she is presently healed, Christ saith, her Faith had made her whole.Christ measureth her Faith by the light and means she had received, and accordingly rewards it, and if the Notion be true, that where he healed the Body, he also healed the Soul, this was the beginning of a greater Faith in her.
Marginal references: Chap. 10.52.
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