Mark 5:25-26 - Exposition

A woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years . All the synoptic Gospels mention the length of time during which she had been suffering. Eusebius records a tradition that she was a Gentile, a native of Caesarea Philippi. This disease was a chronic hoemorrhage, for which she had found no relief from the physicians. Lightfoot, in his 'Horae Hebraicae,' gives a list of the remedies applied in such cases, which seem quite sufficient to account for St. Mark's statement that she was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse . St. Luke, h i mself a physician, says that she "had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any."