The Healing of Veronica

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

January 28, 2026

The Healing of Veronica

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”

Mark 5:34

At the end of chapter four, Jesus challenged his disciples to reach for greater faith. Here in chapter five, Mark reveals the faith Jesus is longing for his followers to embrace. I find it interesting that this faith is modeled by a person who was not His disciple, at least not publicly following Him.

The early church wanted the woman with the bleeding problem in Mark 5:25-34 to be remembered always. They gave her the name of Veronica, and in the devotional exercise, The Stations of the Cross, she is the woman who wipes Jesus’ face at station six.

Veronica’s faith calls her to take huge risks. She was a woman reaching out to touch a man, The Teacher, in a public place, and because of her condition, she was deemed an unclean person.  But she reaches out and touches Jesus because he is her only hope.

Jesus tells Veronica that it was her faith that made her well. I’ve read that Corrie ten Boom lived by the axiom: you will never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. For Veronica, her only hope was in Jesus. Have you ever been there? I have. As I am writing this, I remember when I was riding in an ambulance to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. The heart attack occurred just five days after my wife’s cancer surgery. I was in shock. Then the Holy Spirit used a comment by the EMT in the ambulance to remind me I wasn’t alone. Although I still had much uncertainty, and it would be a few more days before I was scheduled for open heart surgery, all fear was gone. I could affirm that I was a child of God, and God was for me.

My Takeaway: I am blessed to have a comfortable life. I have friends, family, a full pantry, and savings and credit sufficient to meet normal contingencies. This can also be a bit of a curse, because if I can meet all my needs, I don’t need a lot of faith. God save me from such a delusion. Spiritually, I stand in Veronica’s shoes. We all do. Jesus is our only eternal hope.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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