I’ll tell you the best Bible story. My version is Best but you can check the original if you want.

So Jesus is getting pretty big at this point; he’s really blowing up. Folks are following him and he’s
marching on, disciples are striding and streaking next to him; you know Jesus always rides twelve
people deep. This woman sees Jesus, freaks out and she’s like JESUS! OMG OMG. So she grabs for
him, and catches him, this uncatchable man. He stops, shivers.

He turns around and says, “I felt a little of my power leak out of me.” He literally says this in the
translation! Or properly: “Someone touched me, because I felt power going out from me.”

Anyway, she begs him for a healing and he agrees and everything works out. But yo, seriously, isn’t
that crazy? That this Everywoman touched him, sucked the power from a God? That he didn’t
prevent it from happening?

It had to be a woman. It had to! To weaken this Saving Man, to make him forget his pals and his
mission, he stopped. He stopped for That Moment. In That Moment, he was disoriented.

It had to be a woman.