Luke 8 Footnotes

8:46-48 Was everyone who touched Jesus healed? God honored this woman’s faith as it was. The relation of faith to healing in the Gospels is complex. Sometimes Jesus responded to people’s faith (or refused to heal due to their lack of faith), and sometimes he seems to have acted purely on his own initiative (7:11-16). Faith is explicitly present in about half the miracles in the Gospels. In the other half, miracles strengthen the faith of those who witnessed them.

Faith is not a matter of “name it and claim it.” It does not override God’s sovereignty. Lack of healing cannot be blamed on insufficient faith. Neither can it be attributed to specific sin (2Co 12:7-9).