From 52b5fbff9c337ff6829c057101f2089561aa2931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:25:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Luke 8:40-48 --- content/bible_journal/luke_8:40-48.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_8:40-48.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_8:40-48.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_8:40-48.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c60796b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_8:40-48.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 8:40–48" +date = "2022-11-26" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk8.40-48) + +Back in Galilee, maybe in the city of Capernaum, a crowd of people are waiting +for Jesus's return from His trip across the lake. The ruler of the synagogue, +named Jairus, comes to Jesus with a request to help his dying daughter. Jesus +agrees, and they set off across town. + +Before they can get to Jairus's house, they are interrupted by a woman trying +to be healed in secret. To understand the secrecy, it's necessary to understand +the ritual purity laws in the Law of Moses. In order to come before God in +worship and offer acceptable sacrifices, one must be clean of a whole host of +impurities. Touching a dead body, having various skin diseases, or having some +bodily discharge can all make a person unclean. Now, being unclean wasn't +sinful or caused by committing sins, _per se_, but it did represent sin and +death and therefore cut a person off from their relationship with God. +Uncleanness is also infectious according to the law, so in severe situations +the unclean person was excluded from the camp and lived in isolation until they +were made clean again. + +The woman who touched Jesus's cloak had been discharging blood for twelve years +straight. Normal menstruation caused a woman to be unclean for seven days, but +not only herself but also her bed and her chairs and anyone who touches her or +those things. This woman had spent all her money on physicians to try to get +well, but nothing had worked. She saw an opportunity to be healed in Jesus, so +she touched His cloak believing it would help her. + +And it does, but Jesus catches her. She explains why she grabbed His cloak, +which may have disturbed some of the people who heard her. ("She might have +made this holy prophet unclean!" 😱) Jesus treats her gently and declares +before everyone that her faith has made her well. Now she can go make the +necessary sacrifices to atone for her uncleanness and rejoin society, and now +everyone knows that she can. + +* * * + +Show us how pervasive our sin is; wash it from us and make us clean.