ACC ~ Mark 5 v33

FAITH AND TRUTH

JEROME: Note the separate stages; mark the progress. As long as she was hemorrhaging, she could not come into his presence. She was healed by faith and then came before him. She fell at his feet. Even then she did not yet dare to look up into his face. As long as she had been cured, it was enough for her to cling to his feet. She “told him all the truth.” [1] Christ himself is the truth. She was giving praise to the truth. She had been healed by the truth. HOMILY 77. [2]

[1] Mk 5:33.

[2] Cetedoc 0594, 3.9; FC 57:148*.