Mark 5:33

5:33-34 The woman responded in fear—not from guilt, but from the realization that she had experienced a mighty miracle from God. Unlike the fear of the Gerasenes (5:15-17), her fear was positive and brought Jesus’ blessing. She experienced God’s grace and salvation.

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Mar 5:33. Φοβηθεῖσα, fearing) Sometimes fear follows close upon a good action, which very fear subsequently the goodness of the Lord removes; Mat 26:10.—εἶπεν, told) publicly; Luk 8:47; after having laid aside all unseasonable shame because of her disease.—πᾶσαν, all) Rightly done!

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Mar 5:33 . φοβ . καὶ τρέμ ., fearing and trembling, the two states closely connected and often combined (2Co 7:15 , Eph 6:5 , Phi 2:12 ). εἰδυῖα , etc., explains her emotion: she knew what had happened to her, and thought what a dreadful thing it would be to have the surreptitiously obtained benefit recalled by an offended benefactor disapproving her secrecy and her bold disregard of the ceremonial law. πᾶσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν , the whole truth, which would include not only what she had just done, but her excuse for doing it the pitiful tale of chronic misery. From that tale impressively told, heard by disciples, and not easily to be forgotten, the particulars in Mar 5:26 were in all probability derived.

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Verse 33. Fearing and trembling] See Mt 9:22.

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(33) The woman fearing and trembling.—The whole description is fuller than that in St. Matthew.

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33. fearing and trembling] She may have dreaded His anger, for according to the Law (Lev_15:19) the touch of one, afflicted as she was, caused ceremonial defilement until the evening.

told him] i. e. probably all the particulars we find in Mar_5:25-26, and this before all the people (Luk_8:47).

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But the woman fearing and trembling,.... Lest she should be reproved, and suffer the penalties of the law, for appearing in public during the time of her uncleanness, Lev 15:25, or that Christ was displeased with her, for her taking an improper method to obtain her cure; or lest he should recall it, or was angry with her for concealing it, and attempting to go away undiscovered, and without so much as thanking him for it. After conversion, after souls have laid hold on Christ for righteousness and life; after they have had the pardon of their sins, and are cured of their diseases, they are not without their fears and tremblings, though there is no just reason for them: they fear where no fear is; that is, where there is no true cause of fear; which was this woman's ease: they are sometimes afraid they have no interest in Christ, and in his love; that they are hypocrites; that the truth of grace is not in them; that they shall never hold out to the end; that they shall perish, and come short of eternal glory, notwithstanding they know, as this woman did, what has been done in them, and done for them.

Knowing what was done in her, and by her; being conscious to herself that she was the person that had touched him, and that upon it the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she was thoroughly healed of her disease:

Came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. Christ did not point her out, though he knew her; or call her by her name, though he could have done it, and have ordered her to come to him, and account for her conduct: he had said enough to work upon her, and engage her to come; who came of herself, and with the greatest reverence to his person, and sense of her own unworthiness, threw herself at his feet, and gave him a relation of the whole matter, with the utmost truth and, exactness; what had been her case, what was her faith, and what she had done, and what a cure she had received; and which she acknowledged with the greatest thankfulness. In some copies it is added, "before all"; before Christ and his disciples, and the throng of people that were along with him: she that came behind Christ, and privately took hold of the hem of his garment, her faith secretly going out unto him; now appears openly before him, not being able to hide herself any longer. Nor is she ashamed to tell what she had done, and had been done in her: truth is to be spoken, even all the truth; no one has reason to be ashamed of that, and especially of the truth of grace, truth in the inward parts; this is what God requires, and gives, and delights in. The secret experiences of grace in our souls we should not be ashamed to relate to others; this makes for the glory of divine grace, and the good of others. In some copies it is read, "and told him all her cause before all": her whole affair, how it had been with her, and now was, and what was the cause of her taking such a method she did.

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33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

Ver. 33. Came and fell down] sc. Upon her knees, and at his knees, as suppliants used also to do among the heathens; who therefore consecrated the knees to mercy. Genua miseriae consignavit antiquitas. Γουνουμαι ς’ εγωγε. Hom.

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33. Told him all the truth — For the Saviour held that she would not be truly blessed unless she should with her mouth before the world confess her salvation. Then could he wisely speak her peace.

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The woman fearing and trembling, etc. Every word in this verse is expressive. It was her own act. She seemed to herself as though without permission she had stolen a blessing from Christ; and so she could hardly venture to hope that the faith which had prompted her would be accepted. Hence her fear and terror, and her free and full confession. We thus see the gentleness of Christ in his dealings with us. Perhaps the woman had intended to escape, satisfied with a temporal benefit, which would hardly have been a blessing at all, if she had been suffered to carry it away without acknowledgment. But this her loving Saviour would not permit her to do. It was the crisis of her spiritual life. It was necessary that all around should know of the gift which she had endeavored to snatch in secret. Our Lord might have demanded from her this public confession of her faith beforehand. But, in his mercy, he made the way easy to her. The lesson, however, must not be forgotten, that it is not enough to believe with the heart. The lips must do their part, and "with the mouth confession must be made unto salvation."

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fell down before him

"knelt down before him." She knelt down before Jesus as an act of honor and submission.

told him the whole truth

The phrase "the whole truth" refers to how she had touched him and became well. AT: "told him the whole truth about how she had touched him" (See: Ellipsis)

Daughter

Jesus was using this term figuratively to refer to the woman as a believer.

your faith

"your faith in me"

translationWords

fear

tremble

Jesus

faith

peace

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33. φοβηθεῖσα καὶ τρέμουσα, εἰδυῖα. The change of tense intimates that she had been frightened and was still trembling. But see on Mar 5:36. The three participles (Mar 1:15) indicate that even if she had denied it (Lk.’s favourite πάντων need not include her), her manner would have betrayed her. She may have feared that she had been too bold and that her malady might return; she was not afraid that she had made Him Levitically unclean by touching His clothes. Chrysostom suggests that she was made to declare her malady and the manner of its cure in order to sustain the failing faith of Jairus.

πᾶσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. A classical expression; the whole truth. Socrates (Plato Apol. 17), after saying that his accusers have uttered scarcely a word that is true, promises the Athenians that they shall hear from him πᾶσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν.

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33. φοβηθεῖσα κ. τρέμουσα—the aor. pass., denoting a past act, and the pres., denoting a present state; having been frightened and trembling.

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