<TITLE>21. Par 75-75</TITLE>L-75 Now, when Jesus... That woman touched... She pressed through the crowd, touched that outside garment (which it was an underneath one also), but the outside garment, the border of His garment, for she said within her heart... No Scripture to back it up... You got Scripture to back it up now, but she didn't have any Scripture. She said, "If I touch the border of His garment, I'll be made well." How many remembers the story? Why, certainly. She said, "I believe the Man. There's something about Him, that I believe that He's honest and sincere. Now, I believe He is the Messiah."
So she slipped through the crowed and she touched His garment; she squeezed back to the crowed again. And everybody was shaking hands with Him, and patting Him on the shoulder. And He stopped (I'm talking to you without a prayer card.), stopped, and looked around, and said, "Who touch Me?"
Why, it got such a great thing, till even Peter rebuked Him. In other words, might have said this, "What do You mean anyhow? Who touched You? Why, everybody's touching You. What are You talking about saying, 'Who touched Me?' How could we tell? Everybody touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue went out of Me."
That's the kind of touch we're talking about. Not of putting your name on your church book, lot of them are joining churches, lot of them are holding their hands up, "I believe You, Lord."
But He's wanting somebody to touch Him, and that He can feel it. Virtue, that's strength. Just think that one little vision pulled strength out of Him, the Son of God. Daniel saw one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. The Bible said so. It could not be done but once, if Jesus hadn't said... Now, King James Version says, "Greater than this shall you do..." But the right translation is, "More than this shall you do," see, "More". Cause, you couldn't do greater; He raised the dead, and stopped nature, and done everything, see. So it couldn't be greater, but it could be more of it, because He wouldn't have to be in one place. His Spirit could be all over the world, in all the church. He could do more.
Now, when that little woman touched Him, she went off and sit down. We'll say she sit down, she might've stood up. But when she did, Jesus said, "Who touched Me? Who touched Me?" And He looked around, the Spirit of God was in Him, the One Who'd been touched. She didn't touch Him that He could feel it, she touched the Spirit of God that was in Him. And He turned around and looked out through the audience, till He found her. Told her that her faith had saved her from that blood issue, is that right?
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