5:30
“At once Jesus realised that power had gone out of Him”. The process of healing was not some purely mechanistic thing, but Jesus knew something had happened. So Jesus turned to the crowd and asked who had touched Him. This would imply that Jesus knew someone had touched Him, and that this was the means by which faith had been shown in Him.
5:31
His disciples, not for the first time, were amazed, because there were so many people around him. Presumably a number of them had touched Him, but most of these would have been a result of the general jostling, one of them was different, it was a result of faith. Even with singing hymns or saying prayers, they can sometimes just be something we do, almost just a habit. But at other times they are an act of faith, and then they have real power.
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