Jesus: Faith Has Made You Well

In the fast-paced Gospel of Mark, we read:

Mark 5:27–29
"When she had heard the things concerning Jesus, she came in the crowd behind him, and put her hand on his robe. For she said, If I may only put my hand on his robe, I will be made well. And straight away the fountain of her blood was stopped, and she had a feeling in her body that she was healed of her disease."

This is not a tale of physical healing. It is a spiritual, psychological and reproductive allegory—an inner drama between the individual in a continuous state of wanting and the I AM, your creative imagination. Neville Goddard taught that Scripture is psychological, not historical, and this story beautifully illustrates a key movement in the process of the law: the imaginative shift from wanting to being.

The Issue of Blood: A Symbol of Unfulfilled Imagination

The woman had suffered from an “issue of blood” for twelve years. Symbolically, this is not illness—it is a reproductive metaphor. The Bible often uses bodily imagery to describe the states of the mind, and in this case, the issue of blood aligns with menstruation—the monthly shedding that signifies no conception.

In psychological terms, this represents a cycle of desire without fulfilment. She wants something deeply, but she never conceives it. She leaks energy, day after day, into the feeling of "wanting it" and “not yet.” Her assumptions are never made fertile. The creative union between desire and belief never takes place. She remains in a continual state of spiritual menstruation—a vivid image of the mind’s repeated failure to impregnate itself with assumption.

Twelve years—the number of fullness and structure—suggests that she has been bound in this loop long enough. The time has come for a new conception.

Touching the Robe: The Moment of Inner Union

She says within herself:

“If I may only touch his robe, I will be made well.”

She no longer waits for permission, proof, or outward change. She enters the state of healing, however briefly. This is not superstition or desperation—it is an act of fulfillment not desire. She reaches for the robe, which symbolises the outermost layer of identity—the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

She touches it—and something happens.

Mark 5:30
“And Jesus, straight away feeling in himself that power had gone out from him...”

This is a important moment, rich in symbolic meaning. If Jesus represents the I AM, then the power going out of him suggests a release of creative energy—the moment when the imagination responds fruitfully to a perfectly assumed state. Just as the issue of blood is a sign of barrenness, this outflow is a symbol of successful inner union, a kind of psychological consummation.

In the subtlest of ways, this passage uses reproductive language to convey an inner truth. Her years of fruitless wanting are brought to an end in a single moment of felt union with the fulfilled state—and power is released.

Neville would describe this as the moment the seed is planted in consciousness:

“You are healed because you dared to assume.”

“Your Faith Has Made You Well”

Jesus turns and says:

Mark 5:34
“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.”

He doesn't say I healed you. He says your faith—your willingness to touch the feeling of already having—was the cause. It wasn’t the robe. It was her union with the assumption of wellness.

This is what separates her from the crowd. Many touched him outwardly, but she touched him in consciousness. She no longer desired to be healed—she accepted “I AM healed.” That moment of belief produced the change.

From Seeking to Conceiving

This is not a story about two individuals, but two states within you. The woman is the part of your mind that yearns, strives, and waits. Jesus is the imagination, the I AM, always ready to respond when the assumption is made. Their meeting is your own moment of conception—when the soul no longer bleeds with wanting, but rests in fulfilment.

Neville put it simply:

“You must dare to assume you are what you want to be—and remain faithful to that assumption.”

It is then that the seed is planted, the bleeding stops, and you are pregnant with fulfillment.

This is the fruit of faith.