Why did Jesus act at times without any expression of faith on the part of the healed person?
Tuesday November 18 Healing Outcasts (Luke 8:43-48). What were the restrictions and responsibilities for the woman with the issue of blood? Lev. 15:19-30. For twelve years, the woman who touched Jesus had lived in a perpetual state of ritual impurity. Her alienation was surpassed only by that of a leper or someone touching the dead. Her condition caused impurity of her bed, her clothes, and the places she sat. It kept her from engaging in marital relations. Her uncleanness involved continuous ritual cleansing responsibilities for those who touched her. According to the Mishnah, the codified Jewish oral tradition, “The Temple Mount is still more holy, for no man or woman that has a flux, no menstruant and no woman after childbirth may enter therein. –“Mishnah, Kelim 1.8. The purification law was given “lest they die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them” (Lev. 15:31, NASB). This woman was excluded from worship in the temple, from the presence of God (i
