Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
A Depressing and Tormenting Illness Is Overcome By Faith
In The Great Physician
Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve
years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be
healed of any, Came behind him (Jesus) and touched the border of his
garment, and immediately her issue of blood staunched. (stopped) And Jesus
said, Who Touched Me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him
said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who
touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me, for I perceive that
virtue (power) is gone out of me.
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and
falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for
what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he
said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
whole; go in peace. ( commentators have suggested that Jesus said
that, because many people had superstitions connected with being healed
miraculously, and so he stressed that her faith in him was what brought
forth her miracle healing.)
What a change this must have made in her life, Christian singles. To have
any debilitating illness for 12 years would almost certainly have caused
depression. And each time she saw a new physician and got her hopes up, they
were dashed again Since she had spent all the money she had, to be returned
to health, she probably was living in poverty and want. If she was a married
woman, this illness may have deprived her of having children, and it surely
drained a great deal of blood from her system, making her weak and prone to
illness. Here is what B.W. Johnson (quoted above in Paul’s shipwreck
story) commented on this miracle healing, in The People’s New Testament:
20. On his way to the house of Jairus another miracle was wrought.
And, behold, a certain woman. I think the circumstances of the
narrative render the inference almost certain that this account was meant
for the consolation of those multitudes of stricken women in all ages who
seem to be afflicted with sorrows in very unequal measure, compared with the
stronger, and generally, also, the more [56] depraved, sex.--W. H.
Thomson, M.D. An issue of blood. A hemorrhage either from the
bowels or the womb, probably the latter. Came behind and touched the hem
of his garment. The ordinary outer Jewish garment was a square or oblong
piece of cloth, worn something like an Indian blanket.
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