Was the Healing of the Woman with a Blood Issue Fulfilling a Prophecy?

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind Him, and touched the hem of His garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole. But Yeshua turned Him about, and when He saw her, He said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. – Matthew 9:23.

What did the woman know when she thought, “If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole” and why did Yeshua tell her that her faith had made her whole? Was it just because she had seen him heal so many that her faith was strong enough to believe that He could heal her too? Yes, I think that was part of it, but I also think that there is a prophecy revealed here, as well. Why would the woman not just have went up to Him and asked to be healed? Why would she specifically seek to touch the hem of His garment? And what is the hem of His garment? Let us examine these things.

Malachi 4:2 says, “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”

Obviously, the Sun of righteousness is Yeshua. This does not mean that He is Mithra, as some, who watch the Zeitgeist, would suggest, but this refers to Psalms 84:11, which states, “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly,” but let us get back to the point of this lesson, which is Malachi 4:2.

It states that Yeshua would come with healing in His wings. Was He born with wings? Absolutely not! So what did Malachi mean?

Wings here is the Hebrew word kanaph and its definition is:

1) wing, extremity, edge, winged, border, corner, shirt
a) wing
b) extremity
1) skirt, corner (of garment)
So Malachi was talking about the corner of his garment. This would have been the corner of Yeshua’s tallit, because the word for wing is the same word for borders, where they were to attach their tzitzit or fringes.

Numbers 15:38-40 holds the command for this to be worn, as it states, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

So the woman with the blood issue had read the prophecy of Malachi 4:2 and she did believe that if she touched the corner of Yeshua’s tallit that she would be healed, and for that, Yeshua said to her, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.”

Photo compliments of Brian-Asriel