Mark 5:24 – 34

²⁴ So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. ²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. ³⁰ At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” ³¹ “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” ³² But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. ³⁴ He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Throughout Jesus’ ministry, he not only provided many answers, but asked many questions. However, Jesus’ questioning was never to discover something HE did not know, but to reveal to those he was addressing, what THEY did not know.  For instance,  

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? (Matt. 6:27) 

“Which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?” (Matt. 7:9) 

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? (Mark 8:36) 

Jesus would constantly ask questions of those he was teaching, seeking for the crowd to reflect on their own hearts and in doing so, draw closer to him. Here we see Jesus ask a question again, “Who touched my clothes?” Jesus did not ask this question out of ignorance. Jesus, being God, knew exactly who it was who touched him. Rather, Jesus asked this question for the sake of the woman. So that he may draw her out from the crowed and allow her to praise God for the healing and salvation she had received.  

When we read the scripture, it is important to realise that the questions God asks are not so he may find out something about us, for he knows everything about us already! But rather, that he may reveal to us something about ourselves, about our condition and about our heart, as well as something about Him. In doing so, this helps us draw closer to God in both praise and humility.  

Joel Bulow – Creek Road