And yet she comes and touches—Jesus. Of course she is embarrassed when Jesus turns round and says, ‘Who touched me?’ But again the miracle happens. ‘Some one touched me,’ he says, ‘I can tell, because power has gone out of me.’ That’s the point: the special power of Jesus, the power not of force but of love, not of oppression but of health and purity, is stronger than the ritual uncleanness she had had for so many years. The same thing is true when Jesus raises to life the son of the widow at Nain.