Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering — the healing is instantaneous and bodily experienced: she felt in her body. The phrase communicates that the healing is not merely a report from an external observer but an internal, physical reality experienced by the woman herself. Freed from her suffering — the word freed (iaomai in the root) suggests liberation as well as cure: twelve years of suffering ended in a moment. The immediate quality of the healing (immediately her bleeding stopped) is the same immediacy that characterizes all of Jesus' healings in Mark — no recovery period, no gradual improvement, instant and complete restoration.

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