Garments Part 2

To recap, this is how I ended Part 1:

The woman got what she wanted and could of bolted immediately after being healed. Jesus felt power coming out of him and asked in the middle of a crowd, "Who touched my garments?" (v.30). It appears as a dumb question for two reasons.

1. He walked through a middle of a crowd. Of course someone may make physical contact with him...
2. If Jesus knows everything, he definitely knew who touched his garments. So why ask a question that you already know the answer to? (emphasis added)

If we're going to be honest with each other, here's the real reason why there's a Part 2 to this post...I didn't know the answer to the question I asked. But after figuring it out, my mind blew.

It's still blown.

"Who touched my garments?" is how the event was recorded in the Bible. 

Jesus knew who touched his garments, but his disciples didn't. Jesus could tell her story himself.

"For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light."-Luke 8:17

By asking "Who touched my garments?", Jesus asks the woman to reveal herself. According to my ESV study bible, this event happens in front of a temple. Only those who were washed by the saints were allowed to walk in front of the temple.  The woman's illness makes her unclean and unpurified. Touching someone unclean, like that woman, turns clean people unclean.

Coming forward and responding to Jesus took a surpassing amount of courage. When answering him, she admits to contaminating clean people. The woman didn't admit it boastingly, she came forward in fear, trembling, and completely fell down in front of Jesus. 

She shared the whole truth. What was the 'whole truth'? All the events that happened before she answered Jesus (v.24-29). 

Although this is a story about Jesus, Jesus lets this woman tell his story. Although Jesus surpasses perfection, he wants unclean, hopeless, fearful sinners to tell his story. 

How did this event get recorded into the Bible? 

"Who touched my garments?"

After she shares the whole truth, this unclean, diseased woman becomes a daughter of Jesus (v.34): clean, well, and his.