Mark
5: 21-43
A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
21When 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. 22Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came
there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet 23and 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." 24So Jesus
went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25And
a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26She 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. 27When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd
and touched his cloak, 28because she thought, "If I just
touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29Immediately her
bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30At 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?'
"
32But Jesus kept looking around to see
who had done it. 33Then the woman, knowing what had happened
to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in
peace and be freed from your suffering."
35While Jesus was still speaking, some
men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. "Your daughter is dead,"
they said. "Why bother the teacher any more?"
36Ignoring what they said, Jesus told
the synagogue ruler, "Don't be afraid; just believe."
37He did not let anyone follow him
except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38When
they came to the home of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying
and wailing loudly. 39He went in and said to them, "Why
all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." 40But 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. 41He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha
koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" ). 42Immediately the girl stood up and walked around (she was twelve
years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43He
gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something
to eat.
