Mark 5:25 Meaning and Explanation
“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →In the crowd is a woman who has suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years.
What Does Mark 5:25 Mean?
Mark turns to the second sufferer: a woman with a hemorrhage of twelve years' standing -- as long as Jairus's daughter has been alive. Under the law such a flow made her continually unclean (Leviticus 15:25), so that her touch defiled whatever and whomever it met.
Twelve years of illness, then, meant twelve years of exclusion: from worship, from embrace, from ordinary life among people. Her suffering is bodily, social, and spiritual at once. Mark threads her story through the story of the dying girl so that the two daughters of this chapter answer each other -- and so that we learn there is no misery, public or hidden, that Christ does not stop for.
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What does Mark 5:25 mean?
In the crowd is a woman who has suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years.