What Old Testament prophecies connect to Jesus' healing power in Mark 5:29? Mark 5:29—Instant Restoration • “Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.” • One touch of the Messiah’s garment released power that the Old Testament had already promised. Prophecies Directly Pointing to the Messiah’s Healing Power “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.” – “Wings” (Hebrew kānāp) also means the corners of a garment. The woman reached for the fringe of Jesus’ robe and found the promised “healing in His wings.” “Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows… by His stripes we are healed.” – The Servant would literally bear sicknesses. Mark 5:29 illustrates that burden being lifted from a single sufferer. “Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the mute tongue will shout for joy.” – Every category of healing foretold here breaks out repeatedly in Jesus’ ministry, including the sudden, complete cure seen in Mark 5. “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me… He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted.” – Jesus read this passage in Nazareth (Luke 4:18-21) and declared it fulfilled. Binding up wounds in body and soul is on His messianic résumé. “On that day a fountain will be opened… to cleanse them from sin and impurity.” – Physical bleeding made the woman ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 15). The Messiah’s “fountain” cleanses both impurity and disease in one gracious act. The Significance of the Hem • Numbers 15:37-41 commands Israel to put tassels (tzitzit) on garment corners. • Touching Jesus’ tassel linked faith to the prophetic picture of healing flowing from the “wings” of the righteous One (Malachi 4:2). Putting It All Together The woman’s instant cure in Mark 5:29 is more than an isolated miracle; it is the living fulfillment of multiple prophetic threads: the Servant who carries sickness, the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings, the Spirit-anointed Liberator, and the opened fountain of cleansing. Every promise converges in Jesus, confirming that the Scriptures speak literally and accurately of His saving, healing mission. |
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