21 ‘When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”36 Overhearing[c] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.’
1. The two miracles ( Jairus daughter and the woman with the flow ) are connected …
2. How?
In each, a desperate person needs a physical healing…
a younger girl and second an older woman
the first he touches and with the other older woman, he is touched:
both touches involve healing.
In one he is asked by a father who falls to his knees as a beggar, and in the other, he is touched by a woman without money, a beggar, who does not feel worthy enough to be asked. She also falls to her knees as she confesses her touch of Jesus.
Each needs healing; each falls to their needs; each experience Jesus’ touch… and each are healed.
This older woman was probably in the crowd and heard Jairus request. This prompts her to act; to follow Jesus. Jarius’ words stimulate the idea that there is healing in the touch of Jesus.
A lesson here- for us is to touch Jesus, …How?
… ourselves, we touch by studying His word; his life, His death; His resurrection.
More than studying , we cry out to touch because we are called to touch the what can be the untouchable…
our own hearts; our own selves
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