We hear a lot about managing pain. It's as though people expect that, like stocks and bonds, pain will forever fluctuate and needs to be monitored. The author offers an entirely different perspective, explaining the spiritual means that enable us not merely to cope with pain but to free ourselves from it.
Although it certainly seemed he was justified in being angry—after all, someone had stolen from him—the writer learns a better way to respond than with aggression.
And certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.