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Gospel Reading - Woman with the Issue of Blood

²⁴Jesus went with him, and the crowd thronged behind. ²⁵In the crowd was a woman who had been sick for twelve years with a hemorrhage. ²⁶She had suffered much from many doctors through the years and had become poor from paying them, and was no better but, in fact, was worse. ²⁷She had heard all about the wonderful miracles Jesus did, and that is why she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his clothes.

²⁸For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his clothing, I will be healed.” ²⁹And sure enough, as soon as she had touched him, the bleeding stopped and she knew she was well!

³⁰Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹His disciples said to him, “All this crowd pressing around you, and you ask who touched you?”

³²But he kept on looking around to see who it was who had done it. ³³Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and told him what she had done. ³⁴And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, healed of your disease.”