I'm still working through Mark imagining myself into all the stories and today was struck by the way Jesus makes a big thing about the woman with the issue of blood touching Him and then goes on to heal Jaruis' daughter.
We've often hear that Jesus did this so that the woman would know and He could be personal with her. But I think too that He was proving a point. If someone touched a woman during her menstrual cycle, as well as the woman already being unclean, the person who touched her would be unclean too and so not allowed into the temple. And I would presume by not getting into the temple one couldn't be used by God.
So Jesus makes sure everyone knows that He, a rabbi, has been touched by a woman who was bleeding, then He goes on to touch a dead girl and bring her back to life.
Talk about going against so much of the Pharisaical laws. And yet He still says He comes to fulfill the law and not to destroy it!!
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