07.28.24 - Mark XV - Healed, Raised & Ready!

In our journey through the Gospel of Mark (5:21-43) we today come upon a “sandwich” story in which we first encounter Jairus requesting Jesus’ presence in his home in order to heal his sick daughter. On the way, though, another story is begun by a woman who’s suffered a bleeding illness for 12 years (the age of Jairus’ daughter BTW). In spite of being interrupted in the midst of a very important mission, Jesus stops to engage the woman whose been healed just by touching the hem of his outer robe. He calls her “daughter,” the only time he uses this term in Mark. In the arc of this series of stories, including 2 previous, we find that there is NOTHING Jesus can’t handle: storms, demons, illness, even death itself. Whatever you’ve got, He can handle it. Reach out to Jesus, and He will send you forth as He does the woman: “Go in peace!”

To investigate this most important of stories further, go here.