Meat and Meaning: Why Jesus Let a Woman Touch Him (And It Wasn’t About Being Approachable)

Touch in the Gospels is rarely gentle background detail. It’s loaded. Risky. Often pretty controversial.

So when Jesus allows a woman to touch Him publicly, especially a woman everyone agrees should not be touching anyone at all, the moment carries far more meaning than we usually let it.

“Just then a woman, losing blood for twelve years, came from behind…