Highlights
- Jesus healed them both; one with great faith that healed her (bleeding for twelve years); the other one brought back from the dead through pleadings of her father
Mark 5:21-42
[21]Jesus went back across to the other side of the lake. There at the lakeside a large crowd gathered round him.
[22]Jairus, an official of the local synagogue, arrived, and when he saw Jesus, he threw himself down at his feet
[23]and begged him earnestly, “My little daughter is very ill. Please come and place your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”
[24]Then Jesus started off with him. So many people were going along with Jesus that they were crowding him from every side.
[25]There was a woman who had suffered terribly from severe bleeding for twelve years,
[26]even though she had been treated by many doctors. She had spent all her money, but instead of getting better she got worse all the time.
[27]She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind him,
[28]saying to herself, “If I just touch his clothes, I will get well.”
[29]She touched his cloak, and her bleeding stopped at once; and she had the feeling inside herself that she was healed of her trouble.
[30]At once Jesus knew that power had gone out of him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
[31]His disciples answered, “You see how the people are crowding you; why do you ask who touched you?”
[32]But Jesus kept looking round to see who had done it.
[33]The woman realized what had happened to her, so she came, trembling with fear, knelt at his feet, and told him the whole truth.
[34]Jesus said to her, “My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your trouble.”
[35]While Jesus was saying this, some messengers came from Jairus’ house and told him, “Your daughter has died. Why bother the Teacher any longer?”
[36]Jesus paid no attention to what they said, but told him, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
[37]Then he did not let anyone else go on with him except Peter and James and his brother John.
[38]They arrived at Jairus’ house, where Jesus saw the confusion and heard all the loud crying and wailing.
[39]He went in and said to them, “Why all this confusion? Why are you crying? The child is not dead — she is only sleeping!”
[40]They laughed at him, so he put them all out, took the child’s father and mother and his three disciples, and went into the room where the child was lying.
[41]He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha, koum,” which means, “Little girl, I tell you to get up!”
[42]She got up at once and started walking around. (She was twelve years old.) When this happened, they were completely amazed.