65 Jesus Heals Jairus’ daughter [Mark 5:21–43]
The Bible passage: [Mark 5:21–43]
The Story:
A large crowd gathered around Jesus while He was by the sea.
One of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came to see Jesus. Jairus fell at Jesus’ feet and begged Him, “My daughter is near death. If you come and lay Your hands on her, she can get well and live.”
Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed. They were pressing close against Him. A woman was in the crowd who had suffered from a bleeding disorder for 12 years. She had spent everything she had on doctors and had not gotten any help. On the contrary, she got worse.
She had heard about Jesus. She came behind Him in the crowd and touched His robe, thinking that she would get well if she could just touch His robe.
When she touched his robe, her flow of blood immediately stopped. She sensed in her body that she had been cured of her affliction.
Jesus realized within Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned toward the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”
His disciples said to Him, “There is a crowd pressing against You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”
He was still looking around to see who had done this. The woman came trembling, fell down before Him, and told Him her whole story.
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be free from your illness.”
While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t bother the Teacher any longer.”
When Jesus heard what was said, He told Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe.”
They came to the leader’s house, and He saw a commotion of people loudly weeping and wailing.
He went in and said, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead. She’s just asleep.”
They started laughing at Him, and He told them all to go outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and a few disciples, and went into the house.
He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Little girl, get up!”
Immediately the girl got up. At this everyone was utterly astounded.
Jesus gave them strict orders that they not tell anyone about what had happened. He told them to give her something to eat.
The Lessons:
- A synagogue is a local place of worship and instruction in the Jewish faith.
- The woman with the bleeding disorder was healed because of her own faith. Jesus felt power leave Him during this contact. Having a bleeding disorder would have made her “unclean“ and no one would want to have any contact with her. She had been an outcast for 12 years. She received physical healing, but she also received emotional and spiritual healing.
- Jairus showed his faith by asking Jesus to come and heal his daughter. He talked about laying hands on his daughter to heal her. The Bible often talks about laying on of hands in healing or treating injury or illness.
- When Jesus raised her from the dead, he again showed His power over His creation, including life itself.
- Jesus tells everyone that the girl is “asleep“. In the New Testament, this word is often used instead of saying that someone is dead. With the promise of an afterlife, death really is just falling asleep on earth and waking up in eternity. In this case, it is possible that she had died and Jesus referred to her as being asleep because He would awaken her soon.
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